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cord-260253-kd9fw7fh	Lei, Shaoqing	Author's reply	2020-05-18		.txt	text/plain	357	29	54	Thus, any infection long after surgery (say, 10 to 14 days after surgery) or those who contacted with confirmed cases of COVID-19 after surgery (such as the 3 excluded patients) were excluded. Additionally, we cannot exclude the possibility that there may be someone who got infected and performed surgery but maintained asymptomatic, despite this might be rare. as the authors estimated could only be the rate of unintentional surgery that activated latent infection. As for the number of patients in each group (surgical difficulties), we have presented the details of types of surgery and grading of surgical difficulty in Table 1 and Table 2 in our published article [1] . We appreciate the authors' suggestion of providing detailed rates of infection and mortality etc. Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing surgeries during the incubation period of COVID-19 infection Perioperative management of patients infected with the novel coronavirus: recommendation from the joint task force of the chinese society of anesthesiology and the chinese association of anesthesiologists	./cache/cord-260253-kd9fw7fh.txt	./txt/cord-260253-kd9fw7fh.txt