Forbes March 17, 2024
The Covid-19 pandemic and the botched handling of it have been tragic in many different ways. One of the still emerging tragedies has been delays in the diagnoses of and care for other types of medical conditions because people weren’t being seen in clinics and hospitals as regularly as they should have. That’s probably left a lot of people “shoulding” all over themselves as in should’ve, could’ve, would’ve gotten treatment earlier. For example, a study recently published in BJU International estimated that the “pandemic led to 20,000 missed prostate cancer diagnoses in England alone,” in the words of the study authors.
That’s just England, which has a population of around 56 million, about a fifth of the U.S. population. Now...
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