Almost half of adults in families losing work during the pandemic avoided health care because of costs or COVID-19 concerns Gonzalez, Dulce, author. Zuckerman, Stephen, author. Kenney, Genevieve M., author. Karpman, Michael, author. Facilities and Services Utilization -- statistics & numerical data Coronavirus Infections Pandemics Unemployment The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic downturn are posing new challenges for families seeking health care. Not only have many providers rescheduled patient visits or closed their practices because of the pandemic, but patients have also shied away from seeing their regular physicians (Hamel et al. 2020).1 In addition, significant material hardship among the large number of adults whose families have lost jobs or work-related income during the pandemic makes it difficult for families to afford the care they need (Karpman et al. 2020). Washington, DC : Urban Institute, July 2020 Urban Institute, issuing body. Technical Report Text Illustrations 1 online resource (1 PDF file (11 pages)) nlm:nlmuid-101772093-pdf 101772093 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101772093 English United States Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-DC license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0