Dr. Jay Desai

One of the things for diabetes has always been getting an annual flu shot and getting a pneumonia vaccination on a more regular basis, but people don't do it, even though, you know, it's an issue. So maybe COVID can help raise the profile. It's going to be added to that.

One of the things for diabetes has always been getting an annual flu shot and getting a pneumonia vaccination on a more regular basis, but people don't do it, even though, you know, it's an issue. So maybe COVID can help raise the profile. It's going to be added to that.

Yeah. But what it has allowed, I do think both in our public health world is to have more conversations across conversations around the relationships between chronic disease and infectious disease, post-infectious disease. And so I think there's a real opportunity for us to grow that kind of connection moving forward.

Yeah. But what it has allowed, I do think both in our public health world is to have more conversations across conversations around the relationships between chronic disease and infectious disease, post-infectious disease. And so I think there's a real opportunity for us to grow that kind of connection moving forward.

And by the same token, I think that's gonna be happening within hopefully the healthcare provider system too. Because that's still, just as we are in public health, When you're looking at something like an infectious disease, you're not necessarily thinking about other chronic conditions or potentially longer-term chronic conditions, but now you need to.

And by the same token, I think that's gonna be happening within hopefully the healthcare provider system too. Because that's still, just as we are in public health, When you're looking at something like an infectious disease, you're not necessarily thinking about other chronic conditions or potentially longer-term chronic conditions, but now you need to.

So I'm not sure that that's, you know, there's obvious changes yet, but I can see it as an opportunity to grow some of the more collaborative, more thinking about that together moving in the future.

So I'm not sure that that's, you know, there's obvious changes yet, but I can see it as an opportunity to grow some of the more collaborative, more thinking about that together moving in the future.

Yeah. And, you know, I started working in diabetes in 1995 and it was a recommendation back then. And it's now almost 2025. And you haven't heard about it. You know, it's like I don't know what to say.

Yeah. And, you know, I started working in diabetes in 1995 and it was a recommendation back then. And it's now almost 2025. And you haven't heard about it. You know, it's like I don't know what to say.