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This article is part of a series on what the healthcare industry looks like one year after the novel coronavirus was declared a pandemic and life in the United States began to drastically change.
The U.S. has grappled with the coronavirus pandemic for one year now, a year that saw major health systems and community physicians alike scrambling to ramp up operations to care for the growing tide of COVID-19 patients.
But unlike large hospitals, which have remained on relatively stable footing, the competition for scarce supplies and federal aid paired with a catastrophic plummet in patient visits early in the year left independent primary care practices many already operating on razor-thin margins wheezing.
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