Doctors hope expanded telemedicine access in Washington state becomes law after pandemic

Dr. John Scott from UW Medicine says there’s been an unlikely silver lining from the coronavirus – the rise of telemedicine. “It's like 20 years worth of work in two months,” he said. Scott says the pandemic caused normally strict state laws to be relaxed, making access to care easier. “Just to give you some numbers, so we got a pretty well-established telemedicine program and we did 20,000 visits in 2019,” he said. “In February, we did around 250 visits. By April we were over 30,000”.