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cord-285354-bp2dozzg	Costanzi, Andrea	In response to: Surgery in the COVID-19 phase 2 Italian scenario: Lessons learned in Northern Italy spoke hospitals	2020-07-01		.txt	text/plain	1312	77	55	1097 W e read with interest the article "COVID-19 outbreak in Northern Italy: Viewpoint of the Milan area surgical community," which reported the pandemic surge response of our colleagues within tertiary hospitals in Lombardy. As surgeons operating in spoke hospitals, we have paved through the pandemic in an unusual and unexpected way, many of us having to turn from surgical specialists into coronavirus disease (COVID) ward doctors. Nonetheless, being a surgeon used to emergencies in peripheral hospitals was a valuable resource during the COVID mass casualty incident because of our commitment to patients and acute care background. 1 Our daily schedule changed dramatically when we were asked to cancel elective surgery to increase the hospital capacity in mechanical respirators and intensive care personnel for COVID-19 patients. Surgery in the coronavirus disease 2019 phase 2 Italian scenario:Lessons learned in northern Italy spoke hospitals W e thank Dr. Costanzi and colleagues for their appreciation and interesting insights about our work.	./cache/cord-285354-bp2dozzg.txt	./txt/cord-285354-bp2dozzg.txt