Suspected heart attack? Don’t fear the emergency room due to COVID-19

People with heart attack symptoms have avoided emergency rooms during the COVID-19 pandemic. But waiting too long for diagnosis and treatment can be dangerous. Two classic heart attack symptoms, chest pain and breathlessness, are also common symptoms of COVID-19. People who show up with those symptoms will be tested for COVID and asked to isolate until testing negative. But their initial workup for a possible heart attack will otherwise be essentially the same as in the past.