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COVID‐19: The rising cost of cardiac surgery and disease – Wiley
The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID‐19) pandemic has resulted in widespread economic, health and social disruptions. The delivery of cardiovascular care has been…
1 INTRODUCTION
The first quarter of 2020 saw National Health Service (NHS) surgeons enjoying their last few months of normality before all nonurgent elective operations were abruptly adjourned in April 2020.1 The global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV2) has disrupted and pressurized an already overstretched NHS. This pressure is reflected in the data with the United Kingdom (UK) performing poorly against its European neighbors on key parameters such as beds per…
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