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Impact of COVID-19 on a medium-sized travel medicine clinic in eastern Pennsylvania, USA

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic (COVID) disrupted international travel. We sought to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patient volume, traveler demographics, and income of our medium-sized travel clinic in Pennsylvania, USA. METHODS: We extracted de-identified pre-travel data on 3,510 pre-travel consultations for adults during: Pre-COVID-19 (January 2018-December 2019), Early COVID-19 (April 2020-March 2022) and Late COVID-19 (April 2022-March 2023). We compared traveler demographics, destinations, purpose of travel, medical conditions, and number of vaccinations administered over time, and our clinic's revenue obtained from our financial database (TruSource) for the Pre, Early and Late COVID-19 periods. RESULTS: We observed 84% and 85% relative decreases in traveler volume and revenue respectively from the Pre-COVID-19 to the Early COVID-19 period. The decrease …

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