Cancer in the New World

Dr. Anthony Fauci is, apparently, our newest rock star.  He's so famous that he'll be throwing out the first pitch on Major League Baseball's opening day, whenever that will be.

He's also the bearer of grim news.  Usually it's couched in very conditional language wrapped in carefully non-specific sentences, to avoid seeming like he's telling the truth.  Not so this time:

“Covid-19-related reductions in cancer screening because of the total country lockdown that we and other nations have experienced … over the next decade could actually result in 10,000 or more excess deaths from breast and colorectal cancer because of the reductions in routine screening,” Fauci told an American Association for Cancer Research conference.

Ten thousand cases of cancer that won't be caught in time because our hospitals are busy beating back the pandemic.   That's 1,000 a year - nearly three times each day for the next ten years, someone will get a diagnosis they didn't have to get.  

In the new world, there will be a lot more cancer than in the old world.