"Patients with Heart Attacks, Strokes and Even Appendicitis Vanish from Hospitals" - Lenny Bernstein and Frances Stead Sellers
Soon after he repurposed his 60-bed cardiac unit to accommodate covid-19 patients, Mount Sinai cardiovascular surgeon John Puskas was stumped: With nearly all the beds now occupied by victims of the novel coronavirus, where had all the heart patients gone? Even those left almost speechless by crushing chest pain weren’t coming through the ER.