Survey: 41% of Americans have avoided medical care because of COVID-19Results of a nationwide survey today show that 40.9% of Americans have avoided medical care because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, including 12.0% who avoided emergency care and 31.5% who avoided routine care.
The results are published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).A total of 5,412 adults answered the web-based survey, which was administered during the last week of June.
Young adults ages 18 to 24 were the most likely group to say they had avoided seeking medical care because of COVID-19 (30.9% for urgent or emergency care; 57.2% for any care), followed by unpaid adult caregivers (29.8% for emergency care; 64.3% for routine care), and Hispanic