There have been multiple reports that cancer screenings have

Posted on: September 7, 2020 at 22:27:56 CT

been way down since the spring. I saw a report that as many as 1/3 of chemotherapy sessions have been rescheduled our cancelled. There have been reports that heart attack and stroke cases in the ERs are much lower than normal. Suicide hotline calls are up.

Could we just be having a really lucky year outside Covid? I guess it is possible but in a population of 350M you are not going to see much fluctuation in those numbers from year to year. If those numbers are all changing then there is something behind those variations.