Impact of COVID-19 on Cervical Cancer Screening Rates Among Women Aged 21–65 Years in a Large Integrated Health Care System — Southern California, January 1–September 30, 2019, and January 1–September 30, 2020

Maureen J. Miller & Chun R. Chao et al. · 2021-01-29

On March 19, 2020, the governor of California issued a statewide stay-at-home order to contain the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).* The order reduced accessibility to and patient attendance at outpatient medical visits,
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Maureen J. Miller, Lanfang Xu, Jin Qin, Erin E. Hahn, Quyen Ngo-Metzger, Brian Mittman, Devansu Tewari, Melissa Hodeib, Patricia Wride, Mona Saraiya, Chun R. Chao