Hospitals lost out on roughly $22.3 billion over just a three-month period in 2020 after pausing elective surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in Annals of Surgery.

Registered nurses took to the streets en masse Jan. 27 to “demand hospital execs protect us and our communities with safe staffing.”

The researchers solicited 306 adults—188 in the U.S. and 118 in South Korea—for their views on contact tracing, quarantine monitoring and public mapping of sites recently visited by COVID-positive individuals.

Fewer than 10% of dermatology patients who were seen virtually during the COVID pandemic said they would not use teledermatology again—and only 7% said they’d not recommend telehealth to a friend.

As many as 14% of patients with severe COVID-19 develop type I or type II diabetes––and doctors are bewildered by the association. 

Almost a quarter of families would have balked before bringing an ill or injured child to the emergency department last spring, when COVID-19’s initial surge was underway in the U.S.

Google searches for “telehealth” have fallen far since peaking in March 2020. However, the term is plateauing at a rate that’s 320% higher than in pre-pandemic times.

Primary care practices battling burnout would do well to build capacity for adapting to change—taking charge of volatility rather than reacting to it—especially in times of widespread crisis.

The national average increase over the study period was 760%—from 2.0 pediatric hospitalizations per 100,000 persons in May to 17.2 in November.

Researchers have found nonmedical working professionals bearing significantly more depression and anxiety these days than doctors and nurses working with or near COVID-19 patients.