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'I thought I could wait this out': Fearing coronavirus, patients are delaying hospital visits, putting health and lives at risk

  • Written by Arif R. Sarwari, Physician, associate professor of infectious diseases, chair of Department of Medicine, West Virginia University
Emergency rooms across the country are seeing sharp drops in the number of patients seeking care for problems other than COVID-19.AAron Ontiveroz/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

“Where have all the patients gone?” That’s what doctors in our West Virginia University hospitals began asking as the coronavirus...

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