Gallery | Coronavirus (COVID-19) | April 21, 2020| Dave Fornell, Editor

Image Gallery Showing Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Playgrounds in many places in the U.S. are closed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. This is a playground in Lake in the Hills, Illinois, in the Chicago suburbs. Photo by Christopher Cundiff.

Playgrounds in many places in the U.S. are closed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. This is a playground in Lake in the Hills, Illinois, in the Chicago suburbs. Photo by Christopher Cundiff.

This photo gallery is designed to show the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) on both healthcare and society world wide. The images are from DAIC staff members, submitted from readers on social media, and shared from press releases, hospitals and government public relations sources. This page will be updated regularly with new photos.

Readers are welcome to submit their photos and caption information to [email protected]

Millions of patients with chronic conditions that require regular doctor visits, and those with non-COVID-19 related issues like the flu, food poisoning, and other reasons patients seek medical attention. Telehealth has not been widespread because there is no reimbursement for its use, while in person visits are reimbursed. However, COVID-19 containment efforts immediately changed this and opened telehealth to all patients. Medicare authorized use of telemedicine visits for all in March.

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) virus as seen under a microscope in an image released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). #COVID19 #SARScov22

A patient having their temperature taken to check for elevated temps from the virus at Henry Ford Hospital. Photo by Henry Ford Hospital

In the era of COVID-19, full personal protective equipment (PPE) has become common place in many emergency departments (ED) across the world. Here a clinician takes a patient's temperature with a non-contact thermometer. In many hospitals, this is the first process before anyone can enter the hospital building. Getty Images

A thank you note for clinicians as they enter a key card access door at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. That health system has been in the middle of one of the COVID-19 hotspots in the U.S. and has had more than 800 employees diagnosed with the virus as of mid-April 2020. Photo by Henry Ford Hospital.

Coronavirus swab test kits being sorted in the clinical lab at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. The hospital ramped up its capability in March so it could run more than 1,000 COVID-19 tests per day. Photo by Henry Ford Hospital

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) virus illustration from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). #COVID19 #SARScov22

$Wearing facemasks for patients and staff at hospitals, clinics and medical offices has become universal in April 2020 in efforts to prevent the spread of the virus. Nearly all medical nonessential medical exams and procedures have bee postponed until the numbers of COVID-19 cases start a steady decline. Medical facilities are only seeing a fraction of their regular, non-COVID-19 patient loads, and only then if the exam or procedure is considered essential in the management of their care. Getty Images$