Medicine’s biggest challenges in a post-COVID world

• Some experts predict the pandemic’s ending in 2022. That won’t be the end of public health crises that Americans face, however.

• An increasingly aging American population makes dementia-related death a major issue. In addition, the number of Americans with multiple chronic conditions is on the rise, necessitating that these individuals be adequately tracked and monitored.

• Looming physician shortages, intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, could be tackled using physician extenders, as well as by leveraging technologies such as telehealth, to reach underserved populations.

In terms of public health, the big question on everyone’s mind has been, “When will the pandemic end?”

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