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There has been a significant drop in hospital admissions for respiratory illnesses such as COPD, asthma, non-COVID pneumonia and even the eradication of the influenza virus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Eddy Lang discusses this trend, and the role public health measures such as wearing masks, hand hygiene and physical distancing might have played.
Read 'the impact of COVID-19 on hospital admissions and emergency department visits: A population-based study': journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0252441
Hospital admissions: pneumonia & asthma/COPD graph source: John Birkmeyer as a follow-up to: healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00980
There has been a significant drop in hospital admissions for respiratory illnesses such as COPD, asthma, non-COVID pneumonia and even the eradication of the influenza virus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Eddy Lang discusses this trend, and the role public health measures such as wearing masks, hand hygiene and physical distancing might have played.
Read 'the impact of COVID-19 on hospital admissions and emergency department visits: A population-based study': journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0252441
Hospital admissions: pneumonia & asthma/COPD graph source: John Birkmeyer as a follow-up to: healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00980
