Predicting Health Access During Critical Public Health Crises: An Analysis of Medical Office Responses to the

Nancy Zhong1, Kirsten Wohlars, Mary Lee-Wong

  • 1From the Ward Melville High School InSTAR Program, Stony Brook, New York (N.Z.); Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (N.Z.); Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York (K.W.); Three Village Allergy & Asthma, PLLC, South Setauket, New York (K.W., A.S.); Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York (K.W., A.S.); Division of Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York (M.L.-W.); Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York (M.L.-W.); Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (R.P.); Department of Medicine, North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York (N.M.); Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York (L.A.); Divisions of Pulmonary/Critical Care and Allergy/Immunology, Department of Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York (A.S.); and Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology, and Prevention, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York (A.S.).

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