Delaying elective surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic increases hospital bed capacity as well as boosts supplies of personal protective gear and ventilators.
Virus outbreaks in the recent past have posed challenges, but the novel coronavirus has an uncommon potential to wreak havoc, an infectious disease expert says.
Optimal mitigation efforts, which focus on slowing the spread of the novel coronavirus, will not avoid critical care resources being overwhelmed, new report says.
