HealthTech Magazines June 24, 2021
By Tony S. Reed, EVP & Chief Medical Officer, Temple University Health System
Never has our country been faced with as many challenges to overall health and well-being. In 245 years, we have endured wars, social unrest, pandemics, depressions, poverty, and a pandemic during a world war. Today, the United States faces three pandemics that claimed a combined half-million lives in a single year. Three hundred forty-nine thousand lives have been lost to COVID-19 in 2020 as per WHO, 2021. Eighty-one thousand people died from opioid overdose in the 12 months preceding May 2020 as per CDC, 2020 and forty-three thousand lives were lost to gun violence during 2020 as per Gun Violence Archive, 2021. These pandemics meld with the...
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