Between stay-at-home orders, hospital restrictions and resource limitations, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a significant decline in physician gross revenue affecting all specialties, with infectious disease experiencing a 1.8% gross revenue decline in 2020 relative to pre-pandemic baseline values, despite being in high demand (Health Affairs 2024;43[7]:994-1002).
“I think the decline overall for ID physicians during this time was, one, due to increased time spent