COVID-19 and impact on trauma injuries. A Janus facing in opposite directions?

Injury · 2022 · PMC9212554 · PMID 33658135

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Strikingly enough, while car accident-related injuries decreased as well as minor injuries, there was a clear trend of exponential increase in the percentage of patients presenting with gunshot wound (0.9% vs 1.9, p < 0.05) and stab injuries (0.7% vs 2.5%, p <0.05), between pre-COVID and COVID periods, respectively.

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