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The Other Victims of Covid-19
['Samuel Matlack']
The New Atlantis
The emergency medicine physician ordered an MRI of the patient’s brain and intracerebral vessels.
Covid-19 directly causes physical devastation and in so doing exacerbates the kinds of delays described above.
My colleagues are seeing this as well; far fewer stroke patients come to the hospital now.
Another colleague recently admitted a patient with a massive heart attack who stayed at home for fear of Covid-19.
But these are the other casualties from the Covid-19 pandemic: patients with treatable conditions who do not get treated in time.
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