Please Don’t Avoid the Emergency Room

Health care workers across the country have been asking: Where are our regular patients?

Ariela Zebede
Elemental
Published in
5 min readJun 10, 2020

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Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, heart attacks, strokes, and even appendicitis continue to plague thousands of Americans. For many of these, minutes can mean the difference between life and death. Still, as people continue to practice social distancing and…

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Ariela Zebede
Elemental

Recent Yale University graduate with a degree in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. My studies focus on how social factors impact our health.