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Decrease in ER visits during the pandemic

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People are scared to go to the hospital, emergency department doctors and paramedics say this fear has caused a significant decrease in ER patients during this pandemic.

Frontline workers say people are hesitant to go to hospitals for fear of being exposed to COVID-19.

Doctors say hospitals are actually less busy now than they were prior to the pandemic.

Kelly Botelho has the details.