The COVID-19 Pandemic Kept Thousands of People From Getting Urgent Medical Care, CDC Says

https://time.com/5857154/coronavirus-heart-attacks-strokes/

When COVID-19 lockdowns were first announced in March, doctors also urged patients to postpone all but the most necessary procedures and appointments to save space in hospitals. Many elective surgeries were pushed off, and routine care was mostly moved online.

From the beginning, doctors feared these difficult but necessary precautions would have an unintended consequence: Dissuading from people who actually did need immediate care from getting it.

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