Despite Pandemic, Trauma Centers See No End To 'The Visible Virus Of Violence [khn.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 5/18/2012:00 PM

By Giles Bruce, Kaiser Health News, May 14, 2020

On an early March day at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergency room at the University of Chicago Medical Center teemed with patients.

But many weren’t there because of the coronavirus. They were there because they’d been shot.

Gunshot victims account for most of the 2,600 adult trauma patients a year who come to this hospital on the city’s sprawling South Side. And the pandemic hasn’t dampened the flow.

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