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Primary care doctors are delivering toilet paper, testing patients in their cars, and going online to combat the coronavirus epidemic

That makes congregating inside a clinic and in-person preventive visits too big of a risk. Chen said the organization began discussing what to do instead about a month ago."I don't want seniors hunting for toilet paper," Chen said. Instead, the care teams ChenMed has on staff will take care of that for them.

Dr. Clive Fields, the chief medical officer for primary care company VillageMD, who is based in Houston, started noticing patients were canceling appointments. To help, VillageMD is keeping its clinics open and testing patients. In Houston, the clinics had two of the first six positive coronavirus patients in the area.ospitals are making protective gear out of office supplies and doctors are reusing face masks as supplies dwindle of crucial equipment

For patients who test positive for coronavirus, Field said, the hope is for VillageMD to manage it at home, monitoring symptoms and making sure patients are staying quarantined, until or if the patient's symptoms get worse and they need medical care at the hospital.Tia, a women's health clinic that opened in 2019 in New York City, made the decision on Sunday to shut its clinic down indefinitely in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. It'll still see patients via video and chat.

 

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