Health disparities existed before COVID-19; and according to experts at the University of Houston, while telemedicine looked to bridge that gap, it's simply not enough.
. Dr. Medina, for example, who specializes in neurodegenerative conditions like dementia says Black and Latino communities tend to be at a greater health risk than their White counterparts, but the reason why is a little more complicated to answer.
"I don't know, if you remember seeing those long lines, in front of food pantries on TV, a lot of people didn't have access to healthy foods, a lot of people had lost employment," Dr. Adepoju said.
In fact, some doctors were even considering keeping virtual doctor appointments in the future as a more convenient way to help everyday people. For one, doctors FOX 26 spoke to "So one is just having that technology support to connect, The other portion of it is the technological know-how," Dr. Adepoju explained.
"There are some clinics that are resorting to telephone visits," Dr. Medina added. "There's some limited research on that's showing a lot of promise for folks that may not have the technological resources necessary to do full audiovisual coding kind of visits; and so I think that the more work needs to be done in terms of providing those resources because ultimately, a lot of a lot of assessments can't be done over telephone-based assessments alone.
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