{"id":35221,"date":"2022-05-18T08:21:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T08:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=35221"},"modified":"2022-05-18T08:21:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T08:21:21","slug":"100000-unnecessary-surgeries-were-performed-by-hospitals-during-the-first-year-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-even-as-use-of-the-healthcare-system-hit-all-time-lows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/18\/100000-unnecessary-surgeries-were-performed-by-hospitals-during-the-first-year-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-even-as-use-of-the-healthcare-system-hit-all-time-lows\/","title":{"rendered":"100,000 unnecessary surgeries were performed by hospitals during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic &#8211; even as use of the healthcare system hit all time lows"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21918\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/surgery-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/surgery-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/surgery-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/surgery.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More than 100,000 &#8216;unnecessary&#8217; operations were carried out by America&#8217;s hospitals during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a report finds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-10826641\/100-000-unnecessary-surgeries-performed-hospitals-year-pandemic.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than 100,000 &#8216;unnecessary&#8217; operations were carried out by America&#8217;s hospitals during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a report finds&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/surgery.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35222,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35221\/revisions\/35222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}