Fig. 2

Attendances by geographic area of patient residence to (a) Charing Cross and (b) St Mary’s hospitals between March 12 and May 31. The maps show A (< 1000 m), B (1001 m–5000 m), C (5001 m–7500 m), D (7501 m-10,000 m), and Outer (> 10,000 m) zones defined as the distance from the centroid of the postcode to hospital. Percentages in the “All presentations” columns refer to total presentations in the respective column. Percentages in the “Patients with COVID-19” columns refer to the proportion of all attendances that became COVID-19 hospitalisations. Percentages in the “Change in presentations” columns refer to the difference in all ED attendances in 2020 compared to historic (2015–2019) data. This figure has been created using R version 4.0.3