Cardiovascular Testing in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Volume Recovery and Worldwide Comparison

Cole B Hirschfeld¹, Sharmila Dorbala¹, Leslee J Shaw¹+42

• ¹From the Division of Cardiology, Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY (C.B.H.); Departments of Medicine and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass (S.D.); Blavatnik Family Women's Health Research Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY (L.J.S.); Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va (T.C.V.); The George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, DC (A.D.C.); Cabrini Health, Royal Melbourne Hospital and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (N.B.); Quanta Diagnostico por Imagem, Curitiba, Brazil (R.J.C., J.V.V.); Department of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India (G.K.); BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland (M.C.W.); Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, Tex (M.A.M.); Departments of Imaging, Medicine, and Biomedical Sciences, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif (D.S.B.); Department of Diagnostic, Molecular, and Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (A.B.); Division of Cardiology, Centre for Cardiac MRI, Allegheny Health Network, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa (R.W.B.); Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa (P.E.B.); Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, Calif (M.J.B.); Department of Cardiology, Deborah Heart and Lung Center, Browns Mills, NJ (R.P.B.P.); National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md (M.Y.C.); Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York, NY (M.P.D., A.S.); Division of Cardiology, Cook County Health, Chicago, Ill (R.D.); Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Ore (M.F.); Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn (J.B.G.); University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Ala (F.G.H.); Section of Cardiology, Deming Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, La (R.C.H.); Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (L.K.); Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich (V.L.M.); Division of Cardiology, Mount Sinai Heart, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (J.N.); Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Va (P.F.R.L.); Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Brown University Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI (N.R.S.); Division of Cardiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa (P.S.); St Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Mo (R.C.T.); Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Fla (D.W.); Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel (Y.A.C., A.J.E.); Seymour, Paul, and Gloria Milstein Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, 622 W 168th St, PH 10-203, New York, NY 10032 (E.M., A.J.E.); Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY (M.J.R.); Lee Health Heart & Vascular Institute, Fort Myers, Fla (J.L.M.); Department of Cardiology, Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, Calif (P.P.); University of Chicago (NorthShore), NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, Ill (M.S.); Department of Science and Technology, Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, Quezon City, Philippines (T.N.B.P.); International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria (Y.P., M.D., D.P.); and Department of Radiology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY (A.J.E.).