Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nuclear medicine departments in Europe

Abstract

Since the beginning of the year 2020, the coronavirus-19 dis ease (COVID-19) pandemic has undoubtedly posed signif cant challenges to healthcare systems worldwide [1]. It has also afected, in a way previously unimaginable, our lifestyle and the way we relate to each other, not only at work, but also in the community and in the family setting. Healthcare systems worldwide have been forced to make huge alterations to be able to handle the diferent stages of the pandemic. Specifcally in nuclear medicine departments, several adjust ments have had to be made to face this unprecedented world wide cross-sectional disease. Refecting the need for swift and continuous adaptation, the number of publications on this phe nomenon, which continues to impact upon our routines, has increased considerably in recent months/the past year [...].