Fig. 2

Cancellations and the ratio of cancellations to bookings in Uusimaa, Finland, between January 2020 and July 2021. The grey areas represent periods of state of emergency declared by the Finnish government, coinciding with the heaviest regulatory measures. Only cancellations by the patient or the physician were considered. The blue line denotes the observed values, the orange line the predicted values, and the orange ribbon denotes the 95% CI for the predicted values. The predicted values were estimated using time series data from years between 2017 and 2019