Commentary COVID blindness. Citation Text: Brown L. COVID blindness, Diagnosis (Berl). 2020;7(2):83-84. doi: 10.1515/dx-2020-0042 Copy Citation Format: Google ScholarDOIBibTeXEndNote X3 XMLEndNote 7 XMLEndnote taggedPubMedIdRIS Download Citation Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL August 5, 2020 Brown L. Diagnosis (Berl). 2020;7(2):83-84. View more articles from the same authors. This editorial describes one clinician’s experience treating a patient during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impacts of “COVID blindness” and anchoring bias, which resulted in delayed sepsis treatment for this patient. PubMed citation Free full text Save Save to your library Print Share Facebook Twitter Linkedin Copy URL Cite Citation Citation Text: Brown L. COVID blindness, Diagnosis (Berl). 2020;7(2):83-84. doi: 10.1515/dx-2020-0042 Copy Citation Format: Google ScholarDOIBibTeXEndNote X3 XMLEndNote 7 XMLEndnote taggedPubMedIdRIS Download Citation Related Resources From the Same Author(s) Clinical reasoning in the wild: premature closure during the COVID-19 pandemic. August 19, 2020 Patient perceptions of misdiagnosis of endometriosis: results from an online national survey. July 29, 2020 Understanding context specificity: the effect of contextual factors on clinical reasoning. September 2, 2020 COVID-19: making the right diagnosis. August 5, 2020 Narrowing the mindware gap in medicine. July 20, 2022 The COVID trap: pediatric diagnostic errors in a pandemic world. August 25, 2021 An estimate of missed pediatric sepsis in the emergency department. June 2, 2021 Operational measurement of diagnostic safety: state of the science. 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