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For example, as a patient’s first point-of-contact, primary care tends to identify a spike in seasonal influenza earlier than emergency departments, and can serve as a reliable indicator of underlying trends in community transmission.5,10 This function will become increasingly important in post-peak surveillance, when primary care physicians will be the ones to whom patients are most likely to first present, and may therefore be the first to identify resurgence of COVID-19. |