With the highest volume of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, the Cleveland Clinic announced, on Thursday, plans to delay certain nonessential surgeries.
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As of December 3, Cleveland Clinic said 684 Ohio coronavirus patients were hospitalized with 150 of them in intensive care units.
As a result of the record-high figures, non-essential inpatient surgeries requiring a hospital or ICU bed at Ohio locations scheduled between December 7 and January 3, will be postponed.
The hospital system will reevaluate scheduling surgical cases as the pandemic continues and postpone more if necessary.
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