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  • UPMC says feared coronavirus surge ‘simply hasn’t happened’, will resume elective surgeries

    04/21/2020 4:48:30 PM PDT · by lightman · 21 replies
    pennlive.com ^ | 21 April A.D. 2020 | David Wemmer
    UPMC said Tuesday the predicted surge of COVID-19 patients hasn’t arrived and cases are on the decline in central and western Pennsylvania. In light of that, UPMC plans to resume some of the elective surgeries that were canceled as the result of government directives to conserve beds and supplies for COVID-19 patients. “The very high surge we prepared for simply hasn’t happened,” said Dr. Donald Yealy, UPMC’s chair of emergency medicine. However, state Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine said Tuesday that while the state has begun talking to hospitals about resuming some surgeries, “we’re not there yet.” RELATED: Read...