A Retrospective Analysis of the Initial Effect of COVID-19 on German Prehospital Care During Lockdown in Germany.

Marcus ÖrgelManfred GogolTilman GraulichMohamed OmarAlexander RankerChristian BöttcherEmmanouil LiodakisChristian KrettekChristian Macke

Published in: Open access emergency medicine : OAEM (2021)

We found a decreasing effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany on the number of emergency calls as well as missions, and an increase of the severity of cases in preclinical care for a northern German region with 1.2 million citizens. The effect of these findings caused by COVID-19 on the health care system remains to be seen.

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