Keeping up with Routine Care and Preventive Services Safely During COVID-19
Posted on March 17, 2021 by ODPHP
At ODPHP, we encourage patients to use MyHealthfinder to learn about the preventive services they need to stay healthy. The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every part of our lives and health care is no exception. In the past year, many people may have put off routine health care and preventive services like screenings and vaccines because they’re worried about getting COVID-19. But doctors warn that this could cause problems in the future.
“This is a problem since a lot of conditions are harder to treat when they’re caught later on,” says Alex Krist, MD, MPH, a primary care physician at Fairfax Family Practice in Virginia. “Delaying some services for a couple months made sense early in the pandemic. But now delays are getting longer, which is a concern,” he says.