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COVID-19 and the Consequences of Anchoring Bias |
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| Authors: | Harold W. Horowitz Caren Behar Jeffrey Greene |
| Affiliation: | Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, USA (H.W. Horowitz);New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, USA (H.W. Horowitz);New York University Langone School of Medicine, New York (C. Behar, J. Greene) |
| Abstract: | Suspicion of coronavirus disease in febrile patients might lead to anchoring bias, causing misdiagnosis of other infections for which epidemiologic risks are present. This bias has potentially severe consequences, illustrated by cases of human granulocytic anaplasmosis and Lyme disease in a pregnant woman and human granulocytic anaplasmosis in another person. |
| Keywords: | COVID-19 coronavirus disease SARS-CoV-2 severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 viruses respiratory infections zoonoses Lyme disease human granulocytic anaplasmosis anchoring bias vector-borne infections |