Overdiagnosis and overtreatment during the covid-19 pandemic

Although the overall use of healthcare services fell by about a third during the covid-19 pandemic, with greater reductions among people with less severe diseases, the issue of overdiagnosis and overtreatment adding to increased healthcare associated carbon emissions persisted.123 Repeated and unnecessary testing of patients with covid-19 using RT-PCR, blood tests, and radiological investigations was pervasive. Rampant …