Preventive care has proven to be a key component in order to face less challenging health situations both on a microsocial level in terms of the patient, and also on a macrosocial level in terms of economic governmental investment of any country around the globe. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has left multiple evident impacts, as well as uncountable indirect consequences. For example, the multiple social determinants of health affected by it, on already vulnerable populations. People with a limited or no health insurance will in the long term present more complicated conditions to treat due to delayed detection. The authors focus on the lack of access to cancer screening in the US. The fact that the lockdown has delayed this procedure might not seem a relevant problem, but 5-year survival rates being higher than double when colon or breast cancer are detected on time, should perhaps make us think otherwise. The article recommends to speed up the conditions to stop screening delays and encourage the creation of strategies for at home affordable and uncomplicated screening options