New York hospitals can resume performing elective surgeries and procedures thanks to a decrease in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations tied to the virus, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Thursday.
Hochul signed an executive order in December that mandated hospitals cancel all non-emergency surgeries in regions with high coronavirus positivity rates amidst the Omicron variant’s spread.
The measure was also implemented to free up facilities experiencing staffing shortages.
“We really were under tremendous stress. As you all know, we had to take some extraordinary steps and that was to identify the hardest hit areas – the ones that needed the most help,” said Hochul during a Westchester-based press
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