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cord-347323-lmgn3626	Howe, James R.	COVID-19 Guideline Modifications as CMS Announces “Opening Up America Again”: Comments from the Society of Surgical Oncology	2020-05-06		.txt	text/plain	1194	67	51	The CMS document suggests that ''providers should prioritize surgical/procedural care and high/complexity chronic disease management.'' 1 This would require testing capacity, a healthy workforce, adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), and post-acute care that would not jeopardize the facility's capacity to respond to another surge in COVID-19 cases. To summarize, the White House and CMS documents 1,2 suggest that facilities with down-trending numbers of COVID-19 cases, adequate testing abilities, and no shortages of PPE, intensive care unit (ICU) beds, ventilators, or health care workers may be able to resume elective surgeries, which would reasonably include all cancer cases. The early recovery phase is characterized by fewer COVID-19 cases each day and greater availability of limited resources such as PPE, health care workers, ventilators, ICU beds, and testing. ACS Guidelines for Triage and Management of Elective Cancer Surgery Cases During the Acute and Recovery Phases of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic.	./cache/cord-347323-lmgn3626.txt	./txt/cord-347323-lmgn3626.txt