The Campaign to Lure You Back to the Doctor

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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When physicians and hospitals became overwhelmed with COVID-19 cases, other medical services, from routine tests to emergency room visits, fell dramatically. The long-term consequences of Americans putting off basic medical care may be disastrous. John Tozzi reports on a new push by the health-care industry to stop so-called "Medical Distancing.”

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0:34.1	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 133 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:43.3	Today's main story? By now, we're all familiar with social distancing. But while social distancing might help protect us from the virus, medical distancing might
0:57.3	be hurting our health in the short and long term.
1:03.0	A new campaign by medical providers and health insurers is asking Americans to stop avoiding
1:10.0	the doctor's office.
1:12.2	But first, here's what happened in virus news today.
1:27.3	The coronavirus tightened its grip on the Asia-Pacific region.
1:32.5	Deaths reached a new high in Indonesia, and infections hit records in Hong Kong and Japan.
1:39.6	Cases also set a record in Australia, once hailed as a virus success story. With coronavirus cases
1:47.5	surging across the U.S., the country is again facing an issue that plagued it in the pandemic's
1:53.8	early days. Overwhelming demand at labs has led to longer and longer wait times for test results.
2:02.3	Hospitals are short on supplies, and even major labs are so bogged down that turnaround times can exceed a week.
2:11.5	The absence of a quick, accurate, and effective testing strategy that can be scaled up to demand underscores just how badly
2:20.2	the country has managed the fallout of the novel coronavirus.
2:25.8	Finally, U.S. health officials agreed to pay $1.95 billion for 100 million doses of a vaccine made by Pfizer and Biointech.
2:38.7	According to a statement, the companies will be paid after the vaccine is approved by regulators
2:44.5	and delivered. The vaccine would be available to the American people for free.
2:51.4	Nations around the world have begun ordering vaccines that are still being tested.
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