Fig. 1.
a Graph illustrating the reduced income in 2020 as compared to 2019 during the period of the Belgian Hospital Emergency Plan (HEP) in correlation with the reduced technical and administrative staff of the Department of Pathology. The HEP started in week 12 of 2020. b Graph illustrating the causes of absent technical staff as a function of time during the HEP (weeks 12–18 of 2020).