How Has Covid-19 Affected Otorhinolaryngology Practitioners?

Since the beginning of 2020, COVID-19 has had a huge impact on jobs nationwide. Physicians and other healthcare related jobs are no exception. Overall, medical practices in the U.S. report a fifty-five percent decrease in revenue and a sixty percent decrease in average patient volume since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. Due to this drastic decrease in revenue, medical practices and hospitals have furloughed and laid off employees including 43,000 healthcare workers in March 2020 alone. Nine percent of independent medical practices state they have at least temporarily closed their practices. As social distancing guidelines remain in effect, remote patient engagement has soared and increased by an astounding two hundred twenty five percent

 

Please check out the original source of this information from the University of Medicine and Health Sciences here: https://www.umhs-sk.org/blog/otolaryngologists-ents-rhinologists-and-otologists#ears_nose_and_throat_doctors_and_covid_19

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