Yesterday, the San Francisco Interfaith Council (SFIC) hosted the 42nd in a series of weekly COVID-19 (Coronavirus) response briefings for faith leaders. The program featured Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center General Internist/University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Professor of Medicine Dr. Alicia Fernandez and UCSF Family Community Medicine Assistant Professional Researcher/ San Francisco African American Faith-Based Coalition Executive Director/Third Baptist Church Associate Pastor Rev. Dr. Jonathan Butler, who provided religious and lay leaders with science-based resources needed to convey, in a non-judgmental way, to those who might be skeptical or fearful, facts regarding the COVID-19 vaccines being offered. 

For additional information please contact Dr. Jonathan Butler at

415-638-0102 or email jonathan.butler@ucsf.edu

Also participating were Zoom Briefing Moderator/SFIC Executive Director Michael Pappas, SFIC Board Chair/ Shanti Project Executive Director Kaushik Roy, Founder/President of United Muslims of America Interfaith Alliance Iftekhar Hai, and COVID Command Center's Joint Information Center Community Partners Group Coordinator John McKnight . Special appreciation is extended to SFIC Program/ Administrative Associate Cynthia Zamboukos and COVID Command Center's Joint Information Center Virtual Outreach Team Coordinator Tré Russell Allen, Producer Alisa Kerawala, assisted by Leads Sharon Walton and Hafiza Salehbhai . 

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