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cord-287136-3cml1shh	Dopfer, Christian	COVID-19 related reduction in pediatric emergency healthcare utilization – a concerning trend	2020-09-07		.txt	text/plain	3805	192	50	RESULTS: In the four weeks after lockdown in Germany began, we observed a massive drop of 63.8% in pediatric emergency healthcare utilization (mean daily visits 26.8 ± SEM 1.5 in 2019 vs. Severe cases of COVID-19 remained comparatively low in Germany (n = 163,175 confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infections with 6.692 fatalities as of May 4th 2020 [13] ), and the healthcare system has thus far been spared an untenable influx of critically ill patients. When we compared daily visit frequencies between 2019 and 2020, we observed a striking reduction in the number of patients presenting to the ED after March 16th 2020, the day that school closures and a nationwide lockdown began (Fig. 1a) . The proportion of daily patients with infectious diseases or signs and symptoms of infection, however, did not differ significantly between calendar weeks 12 to 15 from one year to another (Table 1 ; Fig. 2e ).	./cache/cord-287136-3cml1shh.txt	./txt/cord-287136-3cml1shh.txt