by Molly Walker, Associate Editor, MedPage Today March 25, 2021

— Prioritizing surgical patient population could avert more COVID deaths

Patients undergoing elective surgery should be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccination over the general population, a global modeling study suggested.

Such a policy could avert over 56,000 deaths from COVID-19 worldwide, reported the COVIDSurg Collaborative, a multi-national group of surgeons and anesthetists in more than 80 countries.”

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