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beachy_keen 25 points ago +25 / -0

Yup. I work in the operating rooms in a large hospital. We’ve seen patients with cancer being caught at later stages because people weren’t able to go to regular check ups and screenings. We’ve seen patients that stayed home with heart attack symptoms because they were afraid they would catch covid in the ED. We’ve also seen what would’ve been simpler cases like patients with appendicitis coming in with their appendix already ruptured because they were hoping it was just a bad stomach ache that would go away.