COVID-19 has altered how we think about health and medicine - but will these changes outlast the pandemic?
To paraphrase the Shirelles, will we still feel this way tomorrow? Will the health behaviors and attitudes we developed during the pandemic persist after the danger has passed - and should they?
As Dr. Penny Dash, a McKinsey senior partner, put it in 2019: "We probably need fewer hospitals." The reason, Dash continued, was an evolution in need from acute to chronic care, and the opportunity to provide more of this care outside of hospitals, in settings more convenient for patients.
These policy changes are only temporary; if the original cumbersome restrictions are reinstated, it will impair the growth of telehealth once more.
Whether the pandemic will change the way biopharma thinks about infectious diseases is an open question.
A remarkable number of hackathons and more formal consortia have sprung up as engineers and data scientists hope to use their skills against the pandemic.
We're going to have more cleaning of shared surfaces, we're going to have restrictions on how many people can crowd into an elevator, Ubers and airplanes are going to be averaging the deep cleanings that they do, we're going to be seeing more ultraviolet light in indoor settings, we're going to see copper used on shared surfaces.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-pandemic-health-care-permanent-changes/
To paraphrase the Shirelles, will we still feel this way tomorrow? Will the health behaviors and attitudes we developed during the pandemic persist after the danger has passed - and should they?
As Dr. Penny Dash, a McKinsey senior partner, put it in 2019: "We probably need fewer hospitals." The reason, Dash continued, was an evolution in need from acute to chronic care, and the opportunity to provide more of this care outside of hospitals, in settings more convenient for patients.
These policy changes are only temporary; if the original cumbersome restrictions are reinstated, it will impair the growth of telehealth once more.
Whether the pandemic will change the way biopharma thinks about infectious diseases is an open question.
A remarkable number of hackathons and more formal consortia have sprung up as engineers and data scientists hope to use their skills against the pandemic.
We're going to have more cleaning of shared surfaces, we're going to have restrictions on how many people can crowd into an elevator, Ubers and airplanes are going to be averaging the deep cleanings that they do, we're going to be seeing more ultraviolet light in indoor settings, we're going to see copper used on shared surfaces.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-pandemic-health-care-permanent-changes/
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