Editor's Note
This study from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, finds a severe decline in surgical procedure volumes across specialties during the peak of COVID-19, and after the peak and vaccine release periods, the overall volume did not fully recover.
Of 129,956 surgical procedures analyzed during four periods from January 6, 2019, to December 31, 2021:
Further research and hospital-level changes are needed to address the backlog of surgical procedures, the researchers note.
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