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cord-286280-bxfea097	Chang, Connie Y.	Symptomatic COVID-19 infections in outpatient image-guided corticosteroid injection patients during the lockdown phase	2020-10-27		.txt	text/plain	3672	172	42	CONCLUSION: Image-guided corticosteroid injections for pain management performed during the lockdown phase of the COVID-19 pandemic were not associated with a higher infection rate compared to the general population. The purpose of our study was to determine infection rates following imageguided corticosteroid injections for pain management compared to the COVID-19 infection rate in the general population during the lockdown phase. Our study examining outpatients who received image-guided corticosteroid injections for pain management during the lockdown phase of the COVID-19 pandemic found one subject who developed symptomatic COVID-19 infection 19 days after a tibiotalar joint infection. performed a study of 15,068 joint injections and found a relative increased risk of 1.5 for vaccinated subjects developing influenza after an intra-articular corticosteroid injection compared with vaccinated control subjects [16] . In conclusion, our study showed no significant difference in the rate of occurrence of new cases of COVID-19 infection in the corticosteroid injection group and the general population of Massachusetts during the lockdown phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.	./cache/cord-286280-bxfea097.txt	./txt/cord-286280-bxfea097.txt