A CDC report shows that testing for sexually transmitted diseases plummeted during the pandemic, and the health agency estimates that tens of thousands of cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia and thousands of cases of syphilis have gone undetected as a result
Hospitals and primary care providers also halted or restricted non-emergency care, and local health departments reassigned their STD case workers to the coronavirus response effort, further limiting testing and treatment.CDC reports that in St.
Louis, nearly 30 percent of STD and HIV clinics closed when the state implemented a stay-at-home order, while more than 60 percent reduced their services. At the same time, more than 40 percent of the region’s condom distribution sites closed. As a result, total tests for gonorrhea and chlamydia dropped by 45 percent, reaching a low in April and recovering somewhat between then and June as stay-at-home orders lifted.
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