England’s NHS reckons that it has postponed more than 2m planned operations, freeing up 12,000 beds for covid-19 patients
IT IS NOW well established that face masks are an effective tool for slowing the spread of the coronavirus. But in Japan such face-coverings are being used for another, less urgent, purpose: concealing post-surgery swelling. Last week Kyodo News, a wire service,a surge in demand for cosmetic surgery in the country. The phenomenon appears to be driven more by convenience than necessity.
How many operations have been delayed or cancelled? Many governments do not publish timely data. To estimate the impact, researchers at the University of Birmingham asked doctors around the world directly, surveying more than 500 specialists from 359 hospitals in 71 countries. They plugged the data into a statistical model to estimate cancellation rates across 190 countries.
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