COVID-19 doesn’t pay

A subtle element of this great story: how Texas hospitals are worried about losing elective procedures (and all the $$ that comes with).

After hospitals warned about covid surge, Gov. Abbott restricted some elective procedures; within hours, hospital execs walked back warnings. https://t.co/Vd5jHd5yIc

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) June 29, 2020

Elective surgery does.