


Camilla Sasson, vice president of science and innovation for cardiovascular care at the American Heart Association. “We’re here, we’ll keep you safe and we’ll take really good care of you, I promise,” said Dr. To prevent more tragic deaths, the American Heart Association has launched a national campaign, " Don't Die of Doubt," urging people to go to the hospital in a medical emergency. Patricia Iris, medical officer of Lodi Memorial Hospital in California, said. “People were seeing images of body bags in hospital hallways and U-Hauls in New York.

Physicians are worried that the perception of the hospital has changed during the pandemic from a place that’s safe to one that’s dangerous. Reed Caldwell, an ER doctor at NYU Langone Health which saw up to a 50% reduction in the number of patients reporting to their emergency department. “People are terrified of the emergency setting,” said Dr. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in the U.S., visits to the emergency room for reasons other than coronavirus dropped drastically, according to a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report. Battel died of a heart attack in his home. Paramedics immediately tried to revive him, but it was too late. Before Dominick's fatal heart attack in April, he and his wife Cortney often wondered what they should do if someone in the family needed to go to the emergency room.
