Medical professionals shouldered a tremendous burden throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, holding steady on the front lines and finding new ways to treat surges of sick people with limited capacity and staffing.
The pandemic also created the need for more mental health services, and a lot of psychiatric services are now delivered through telemedicine, she added.
Testing has gotten better, and like with telemedicine, it allows patients to find out their results without ever leaving home. Olulade called at-home testing for flu and COVID a game changer, and she noted insurance companies are now more willing to pay for those tests. “There are staffing issues that are persisting and they are going to persist, very unfortunately, possibly for decades to come,” said Olulade. “It’s an issue that’s going to have to be addressed.”
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