President Trump said Thursday that the number of individuals accessing telehealth through Medicare has increased from roughly 11,000 people a week to over 650,000 people a week. The Trump administration on Tuesday announced an unprecedented expansion of telehealth services for seniors, an effort to prevent healthy and sick Americans alike from visiting doctor’s offices in person and risk spreading or catching the novel coronavirus.

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