2020: Telehealth and the Tale of Two Pandemics

From 2020.

Cardiovascular disease and COVID-19 are both pandemics, and these two pandemics are colliding.

More than 400 million people globally have it. 18 million people will die every year from it. By 2030, the estimated global costs is a staggering $1 trillion.

COVID-19? No, it’s cardiovascular (‘heart’) disease or CVD; and it’s been called a pandemic since at least the late 1990s.

The single biggest problem we face during the current COVID-19 crisis is that pandemics don’t exist in isolation.

It has been reported that people with non-infectious chronic diseases such as CVD (and others such as diabetes and cancers) will have far worse outcomes if they contract COVID-19.

Cardiovascular disease and COVID-19 are both pandemics, and these two pandemics are colliding.

Article “Telehealth and the tale of two pandemics” published in InnovationAus on 13 April 2020.