Around 160,000 joint replacement surgeries lost by COVID-19 pandemic, study finds
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Nearly nine months of joint replacement surgery has been lost - around 160,000 fewer operations –  since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new study led by the University of Bristol has found.  The research suggests returning to pre-pandemic levels will not tackle the backlog, and even with rapid expansion, it will take many years, if not decades, to fix this joint replacement crisis.
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Original Title: Around 160,000 joint replacement surgeries lost by COVID-19 pandemic, study finds: By the end of 2022 almost three quarters of a year of planned operations - 71.6 per cent of 2019 activity and 158,994 joint replacements didn’t happen during the COVID-19 pandemic