NYT | Fear of Covid Leads Other Patients to Decline Critical Treatment

Written by AAA Staff on May 26, 2020. Posted in News, Patient Care, Press.

Psychologists say anxiety and uncertainty prompt irrational decisions — like turning down a transplant when an organ becomes available.

…In Newark, emergency medical services teams made 239 on-scene death pronouncements in April, a fourfold increase from April 2019. Fewer than half of those additional deaths could be attributed directly to Covid-19, said Dr. Shereef Elnahal, president and chief executive of Newark’s University Hospital…

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