Dr. Joanne Roberts, chief quality officer, provides Bloomberg with a coronavirus outbreak update. She talks about testing, reopening the economy and delivering care to non-COVID related patients and more.
“Because testing is still limited, we just are not able to know where our communities are and how many people are effected out in the community which is really difficult then to know how quickly we should come back online.”
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