key: cord-0716403-yzro7z0m authors: Yasri, Sora; Wiwanitkit, Viroj title: COVID-19 pandemic and Vascular Surgery Unit date: 2020-05-23 journal: J Vasc Surg DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2020.05.025 sha: bf62a23aa7b23bce5695d7758cc1bdc6ba34207d doc_id: 716403 cord_uid: yzro7z0m nan Dear Editor, we found that the publication on "Early Experience in the COVID-19 pandemic 10 from a Vascular Surgery Unit in a Singapore Tertiary Hospital" is very interesting [1] . Tan et al. 11 found that "Surgical services form an essential component of the healthcare system but as 12 surgeons we need to be versatile and be able to respond to the ever evolving pandemic situation Early Experience in the COVID-19 pandemic from a Vascular Surgery Singapore Tertiary Hospital Carpal Fracture and COVID-19 Infection: Observation from Testing recommendation for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) in patients 12 planned for surgery -continuing the service and 'suppressing' the pandemic