The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the practice medicine on a global scale during the year 2020. With fewer patients presenting to hospitals with the diagnosis of STEMI, healthcare workers are wondering what is causing this decline. This piece presents data from two medical centers and addresses several possible causes to explain this phenomenon. It was found that there was a statistically significant decrease from January to March 2020 in number of presenting STEMI diagnoses.

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COVID-19大流行期间的STEMI-发病率评估。

到2020年，COVID-19大流行已在全球范围内极大地改变了这种常规医学。由于医院诊断出STEMI的患者越来越少，医护人员想知道是什么导致了这种下降。本文介绍了来自两个医疗中心的数据，并阐述了解释此现象的几种可能原因。据发现，从2020年1月到2020年3月，目前提出的STEMI诊断数量有统计上的显着下降。