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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Covid-19 pandemic has created a hidden | ||||||
| 3 | epidemic of deferred care; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, The widespread patient hesitancy to return to | ||||||
| 5 | healthcare services combined with closed and limited | ||||||
| 6 | availability of healthcare services during the pandemic has | ||||||
| 7 | resulted in underdiagnosis and a gap in care, with missed | ||||||
| 8 | opportunities to provide timely and appropriate treatments, | ||||||
| 9 | consequently leading to increased chronic disability and | ||||||
| 10 | mortality; and | ||||||
| 11 | WHEREAS, The long-term impact of the collateral negative | ||||||
| 12 | effects of pandemic-related deferred care is staggering and | ||||||
| 13 | may be felt for a generation; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, A study reported in the New York Times found that | ||||||
| 15 | blood pressure readings increased significantly from April | ||||||
| 16 | 2020 through December 2020 compared with the same period in | ||||||
| 17 | 2019; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, Another study showed that while test volume for | ||||||
| 19 | non-prescribed fentanyl fell during the early months of the | ||||||
| 20 | pandemic and through 2020, the percentage of positive test | ||||||
| 21 | results rose indicating that patients with Opioid Use Disorder | ||||||
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| 1 | were underdiagnosed during the early months of the pandemic | ||||||
| 2 | and through 2020; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, The pandemic has disrupted the utilization of | ||||||
| 4 | women's preventive health services and may be associated with | ||||||
| 5 | increased disparities in access to these services; a | ||||||
| 6 | University of Michigan study found that rates of breast cancer | ||||||
| 7 | screenings, cervical cancer screenings, and sexually | ||||||
| 8 | transmitted infection screenings all significantly declined in | ||||||
| 9 | 2020 compared with 2019; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Another study showed new diagnoses of eight | ||||||
| 11 | common types of cancer declined by 46 percent during most of | ||||||
| 12 | the first 13 months of the pandemic, and, according to data | ||||||
| 13 | presented during the American Urological Association's 2021 | ||||||
| 14 | Virtual Experience, weekly prostate cancer screening rates | ||||||
| 15 | declined by as much as 43 percent during the COVID-19 | ||||||
| 16 | pandemic; therefore, be it
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| 17 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED SECOND GENERAL | ||||||
| 18 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare March of | ||||||
| 19 | 2022 as Back to Care Month in the State of Illinois to educate | ||||||
| 20 | and promote patients to return to a routine of preventative | ||||||
| 21 | care and screening.
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