In the U.S. and Canada the public-health response to COVID-19 discouraged people from visiting hospitals or seeking care from MDs, prompting cancellations for childhood vaccinations, colonoscopies and mammograms. How will such decisions affect overall wellness? And what should we learn from what happened? To discover the answers, host Shaun Francis interviews Dr. Ateev Mehrotra of Harvard Medical School, who tracks large data sets of doctor visits. In public health emergencies, Dr. Mehrotra says, spillover effects “can have a larger toll than the actual thing that triggered that emergency.”
