As the coronavirus pandemic began to spread, most hospitals stopped doing elective surgeries to create capacity for the surge of infected patients.

Now, as most states begin to reopen businesses, over 90% of hospitals have restarted these surgeries, and those that haven’t will do so within weeks.

Soon enough, the healthcare sector will be back to running at full capacity. However, “full capacity” these days looks different than it did before. To understand this better, we commissioned market research to find out what U.S. healthcare leaders really think about the return to surgery. Of 102 who responded to the survey, this is what they said.

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