At Loyola, Cichon said that he has seen an approximately 10 to 15 percent increase in patients due to non-COVID patients coming in who have delayed treatment. At Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the emergency room, which had been seeing 30 percent non-COVID-19 patients, has been seeing 50 or 60 percent in the last week or two, according to Dr. George Chiampas, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Northwestern Medicine.
As non-COVID-19 patients return to Chicago-area emergency rooms, doctors see skyrocketing blood pressure and other side effects of delays in care. ‘It’s terrible, and it’s frightening.’
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