The COVID-19 pandemic

[panamaniac]

I wonder how much impact the shutdown has had on non-covid-19 cases. Fewer people driving means fewer car accidents, for example. My sister is an emergency room nurse in Orillia, and the other night she said they only had two visits, basically an unprecedentedly low number. Based on funding, it would be similar in size to Cambridge Memorial, as a point of comparison.

Fewer traffic and industrial accidents, fewer cases of the flu, and, I suspect, fewer incidents of violent crime.  Although I know there is concern about an increase in domestic violence, I don't know that we are in fact seeing it.

Bonus - I suspect that there are also far fewer unnecessary visits to emergency departments, due to fear of covid-19.  The other side of that is that people who in fact do need to go to emerg may be more reluctant.