Medical Economics January 26, 2021
It is time for an all-hands-on-deck approach.
We have now passed the 1-year anniversary of the pandemic in the United States. More than 25 million have become infected and more than 400,000 have died. Our economy has taken a huge hit — businesses have closed and millions of people are without work. Our hospitals are stretched to the breaking point.
No one is left untouched by the effects of this pandemic. It is laying bare the inequities of our healthcare system, the lack of access to basic care and community coordination and decades of underfunding of our primary care and public health infrastructure.
The solution to all the current economic and public disruption starts with...