Surgeon General Urges Hospitals to Cancel Elective Surgeries in Coronavirus Hot Zones

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams (C) speaks about the novel coronavirus alongside Vice President Mike Pence and members of the Coronavirus Task Force in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on March 9, 2020. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Surgeon General Jerome Adams urged hospitals and other health care providers in coronavirus hot zones to consider suspending elective procedures, after the American College of Surgeons (ACS) suggested the same on Friday.

“Hospital & healthcare systems, PLEASE CONSIDER STOPPING ELECTIVE PROCEDURES until we can #FlattenTheCurve!” Adams wrote on Twitter on Saturday.