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Heart attack, stroke patients are avoiding the ER due to COVID-19 concerns

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Heart attack, stroke patients are avoiding the ER due to COVID-19 concerns By Chelsea Adams The number of heart attack patients treated at U.S. hospital emergency rooms has decreased by nearly half during the coronavirus pandemic. That statistic has health officials worried that people are avoiding care because they are afraid of contracting COVID-19 at a hospital. Kaiser Permanente researchers reviewed heart attack treatments at Northern California hospitals before and after the first COVID-19 death was reported in the region on March 4. READ MORE

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