This week on OA on Healthcare, Joe speaks with Massachusetts State Representative and emergency medicine physician Jon Santiago. Representative Santiago was on the front lines during the height of the pandemic treating COVID-19 patients at the Boston Medical Center, the city’s safety net hospital. In this episode of OA on Healthcare, Representative Santiago candidly describes a range of issues, like how he and his colleagues first approached patients with the relatively unknown coronavirus, how the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color elevated the issue of healthcare disparities, how work at BMC with underserved populations influences his priorities as a legislator, and how the troubling surge in coronavirus cases in states across the country may threaten Massachusetts.