Importance of preventive health care during COVID 19 pandemic

People are driven to seek medical care by pain. Pain is a strong driver to get relief. And since prevention is when you are without symptoms, people tend to put that on the back burner. Or they may feel unsafe to come in because of the uncertainty about COVID. We know enough now about COVID and we have personal protective equipment. We also have vaccines that have been available for healthcare workers now and essentially all have been offered it now. And it is safe to come in to get these preventive screens and vaccines done. A screen is just a tool to detect the disease earlier. It could be a lab. It could be vital signs. It could be questions, a survey instrument for depression for example. It could be taking a family history and trying to take clues for genetics because some genetic testing is covered as a screen. And sometimes we do imaging such as bone density or colonoscopy and endoscopy to detect things. If we pick it up too late, then we don't have as good of a leg up on the situation. And we're hoping to intervene so that you can live longer and have more quality life years as a result of these screens.