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Originally Posted by Tobra

There is substantially more to it, cancelling elective surgeries would not empty the ER.

Right. But I suspect the lack of folks traveling and much lower than usual motor vehicle traffic probably would. Fewer folks out and about doing stupid stuff.

You might think that everyone being locked at home with family, loss of jobs/work/income and increased substance abuse due to additional stress might increase the amount of domestic abuse.

I've wondered about the effect the lockdown has had on crime. I would think that burglary would be decreasing because homes are rarely empty either during the day or at night or on weekends.

The cancellation of elective surgeries would, I think, have increased the number of ORs and beds available in hospitals.

My daughter is a PA for an orthopedic surgeon who has 3 PAs. The PAs are only working 4 days a week now instead of being swamped 5 days a week, and they've discussed dropping them down to 3 days a week, but the Dr is fighting that. It also looks like Texas is talking about allowing some elective surgeries to begin (I think only if they won't involved hospital stays or something like that).