Emergency Department Visits By Adults With Chronic Conditions Associated With Severe COVID-19 Illness: United States, 2017–2019

The report was released on September 1, 2022, by the National Center for Health Statistics within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It presents the number of emergency department visits made for chronic health conditions during the three years before the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in 2020. The focus is on certain chronic conditions that were associated with more severe illness from COVID-19. The data can be used as a baseline to quantify prevalence and association of chronic conditions linked to hospitalization for COVID-19 . . .