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cord-354103-4dldgqzf	Grubic, Andrew D	COVID-19 outbreak and surgical practice: The rationale for suspending non-urgent surgeries and role of testing modalities	2020-06-27		.txt	text/plain	4869	266	47	While epidemiologists and infectious disease physicians are at the forefront in the fight against COVID-19, this pandemic is also a "stress test" to evaluate the capacity and resilience of our surgical community in dealing with the challenges imposed to our health system and society. On the same day, the United States Surgeon General echoed the recommendation from the American College of Surgeons and urged hospitals and healthcare systems to consider suspending elective surgical procedures during the outbreak of COVID-19. This pandemic started with identification of novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) as the causative agent from a cluster of pneumonias in the Hubei providence of China in December 2019. On March 25, 2000, American College of Surgeons released the guidelines for emergency general surgery in COVID-19 positive patients or those at high clinical suspicion for COVID infection. Correlation of Chest CT and RT-PCR Testing in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China: A Report of 1014 Cases	./cache/cord-354103-4dldgqzf.txt	./txt/cord-354103-4dldgqzf.txt