Article Critique of: Hospital Avoidance and Unintended Deaths During the Covid-19 Pandemic by Jonathan Zhang

A 2021 article by Jonathan Zhang titled “Hospital Avoidance and Unintended Deaths During the Covid-19 Pandemic” explores excess deaths due to people avoiding hospitals in the first several weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the late winter and spring of 2020, a novel Coronavirus became a world-wide pandemic and was rapidly spreading across the US.

The pandemic caused widespread anxiety which led to changes in behavior and sudden, drastic changes to…