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Missed Doctor Visits Have Created Covid’s Shadow Health Crisis
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February 9, 2021
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6:55Now PlayingDuring a year when many hospitals in the U.S. saw a crush of Covid-19 patients, other kinds of medical care dropped off sharply. Insulin prescriptions went unwritten, and HIV tests were untaken. Cancer care was pushed off or canceled. People having heart attacks didn’t go to the emergency room.
The cause was the pandemic: People had been told to stay home and were afraid of becoming infected. Even if they wanted to go to the doctor, in-person slots were scarce as waiting rooms were thinned out to allow for social distancing.
These disruptions, compounded by job losses that added to the ranks of uninsured Americans, have created a shadow health crisis. Although the implications will take time to understand, experts say that medical care that was deferred or avoided in 2020 could worsen many Americans’ health in the longer term and inflate medical costs for years to come. While Covid has taken a heavy toll on communities of color, the secondary crisis also risks exacerbating racial health disparities.
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