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How the pandemic has affected primary healthcare around the world

The COVID-19 Pandemic has caused restrictions on care that is vital for the general public. A decrease in face to face appointments have left pregnant patients without guidance throughout their pregnancy. Doctors would cancel surgeries and appointments causing patients to fear their long-term health. The restrictions of person to person contact have caused patients to miss vaccines, causing further out roar.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-the-pandemic-has-affected-primary-healthcare-around-the-world#Missed-vaccines-could-lead-to-other-outbreaks

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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Outpatient Visits: A Rebound Emerges

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Healthcare professionals are changing most of the things we used to know about in person appointments even changing over to tele-health or virtual meetings to assess patients health. Based on statistics we can see the drastic drop in face to face visits and a boom in tele health visits in 2020. The pandemic caused face to face visits to decline by 60%. These practices greatly helped decrease the spread of the infectious disease.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/2020/apr/impact-covid-19-outpatient-visits

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What Impact Has COVID-19 Had on Outpatient Visits?

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The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed how outpatient care is delivered in health care practices. To decrease the risk of transmitting the virus to either patients or health care workers within their practice, providers are deferring elective and preventive visits, such as annual physicals. When possible, they are also converting in-person visits to telemedicine visits.

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North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services

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Why Using Telehealth Is Important During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“Millions of children missing out on routine vaccines is an alarm bell and risks further outbreaks of life threatening diseases like measles.”

– Sacha Deshmukh, UNICEF U.K.

This quote refers the the situation of the time when children couldn't get vaccinated due to the regulation doctors offices have set to decrease the risk of infection

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Should regulations still be in place for patients who used face masks and sanitize regularly?

What will the doctors do if they have to do an emergency operation on an infected patient?

What if an infected surgeon is needed to do a emergency operation of a non-infected patient?

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Telehealth can help you get access to your health care provider without spreading or getting COVID-19.