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From: Psychiatric presentations and admissions during the first wave of Covid-19 compared to 2019 in a psychiatric emergency department in Berlin, Germany: a retrospective chart review

Fig. 1

pED presentations and Covid-19 infections in district Mitte, Berlin. Displays weekly pED presentations in the Covid-19 period (2020, blue line) and pre-Covid-19 period (2019, green line) and weekly Covid-19 infection numbers in the pED’s catchment area in Berlin (red line) in the calendar weeks 10–20. No difference in pED presentations in the Covid-19 period compared to the pre-Covid-19 period was seen. Weeks 9 and 21 are not displayed, as the observation periods did not include complete weeks in both years. The two vertical dotted lines indicate the beginning of lockdown measures in Germany (left line; 03/22/2020) and first opening steps (right line, 05/04/2020) respectively. Data on Covid-19 infections from Robert-Koch-Institut: https://survstat.rki.de/Content/Query/Create.aspx; Abbreviations used: pED, psychiatric emergency department

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