Teladoc Health Reports 50% Spike in Daily Patient Visits
Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC) reported on Friday that the number of patient visits it has facilitated jumped 50% week over week. The virtual medical provider's services have been in heavy demand since COVID-19 hit the U.S. The company is seeing 15,000 visits requested every day. Last week Teladoc provided approximately 100,000 virtual healthcare visits to patients.
"We are seeing more patients and more of those patients are experiencing upper respiratory issues," said Lew Levy, the chief medical officer of the company. "As we saw during the flu epidemic of 2018, a community's healthcare system can become overwhelmed and virtual care can help provide needed relief. We have the unique ability to immediately connect with the CDC and other government agencies, to add the right screening tools and clinical quality protocols to our system, and most importantly, to keep patients -- particularly those most at risk with underlying health conditions -- out of care settings where they can face exposure."
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