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San Francisco Patients Await Elective Surgeries

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When COVID-19 started spreading rapidly, hospitals throughout the country started canceling elective surgeries. Not just cosmetic procedures, but brain surgeries and organ transplants.

Lesley McClurg (@lesleywmcclurg) from member station KQED in San Francisco talks to patients about what it's like to be critically ill from something other than the coronavirus right now.

This segment aired on April 29, 2020.

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