{"id":7347,"date":"2020-06-04T13:32:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7347"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:33:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:33:25","slug":"impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-emergency-department-visits-united-states-january-1-2019-may-30-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/04\/impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-emergency-department-visits-united-states-january-1-2019-may-30-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Visits \u2014 United States, January 1, 2019\u2013May 30, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">E<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mergency department<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">visits declined 42% during the early COVID-19 pandemic, from a mean of 2.1 million per week (March 31\u2013April 27, 2019) to 1.2 million (March 29\u2013April 25, 2020), with the steepest decreases in persons aged \u226414 years, females, and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">those in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the Northeast. The proportion of infectious disease<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">related visits was four times higher during the early period. CDC recommends continued use of virtual visits and triage help lines and adherence to CDC infection control guidance.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hartnett et al. (June 3, 2020). Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Emergency Department Visits \u2014 United States, January 1, 2019\u2013May 30, 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6923e1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6923e1<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency department\u00a0visits declined 42% during the early COVID-19 pandemic, from a mean of 2.1 million per week (March 31\u2013April 27, 2019) to 1.2 million (March 29\u2013April 25, 2020), with the steepest decreases in persons aged \u226414 years, females, and\u00a0those in\u00a0the Northeast. The proportion of infectious disease&#8211;related visits was four times higher during the early period&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/04\/impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-emergency-department-visits-united-states-january-1-2019-may-30-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-7347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7348,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7347\/revisions\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7347"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}