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Collected Item: “Not So Emergency Rooms”

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Not So Emergency Rooms

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Photograph from the Web

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Doctors are seeing an increase in death and severe complications from otherwise treatable diseases as people are waiting until it is too late before seeking treatment, out of fear from catching COVID-19.

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#ASU #HST580 #Healthcare

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https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-05-08/empty-emergency-rooms-worry-doctors-as-heart-attack-stroke-patients-delay-care

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Aaron Ontiveroz

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2020-05-08
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