The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the high rate of infection in the U.S. has driven individuals who would typically seek care from doing so. Even with the economy gradually reporting, hospitals and physicians never stopped seeing patients' during the pandemic. But patients it seems stayed away in droves from seeking care for conditions that they usually would have and continue to do so. Image by Altero Felines from Pixabay There is any number of reasons from regular visits being replaced to an extent by telemedicine to better self-management. Still, people are probably staying way out of fear of contracting COVID-19 in the provider setting. Remember that the patent experience changed and remains changed to a great extent because of COVID-19 precautions to prevent community spread. With a long memory, patients won't all of a sudden believe because you told them so to come back just like before. While there is an understanding that COVID-19 is not a normal situation, the impacts are ...