Local doctors say emergency room visits are dropping... parents are worrying about bringing their kids in.
Non coronavirus emergencies have significantly decreased due to people wanting to stay away from hospitals.
Doctors from all three local hospitals say this is concerning because real emergencies do not stop for a pandemic.
Hospital officials say the hospitals are still very safe to treat non coronavirus patients.
A lot of doctors say they are using telemedicine video calls to treat non emergency patients.
Ceo of erlangers childrens hospital day less kids are ill due to isolation and no group sports.
Doctor also say they are concerned because the number of children seen in the er has dropped significantly.
Take sot :21 we have seen a large decrease in children that we are seeing in our emergency department.
If you compare the last two weeks of this year and last year it's been a 71 percent decline.
So i worry about children that are sick or injured that could use hospital based services and choosing not to come due to coronavirus."
Officials say to please seek medical attention if
Many doctors are seeing a trend that has them concerned: people are putting off a visit to the emergency room.
