Doglietto F, Vezzoli M, Gheza F, et al. - Researchers investigated early surgical outcomes of patients with COVID-19 in different subspecialties via performing a cohort study of 41 surgical patients with COVID-19 and 82 tightly matched control patients without COVID-19. Outcomes revealed significantly higher surgical mortality and complications in patients with COVID-19 compared with patients without COVID-19. Pneumonia and thrombotic complications occurred in significant correlation with COVID-19, and different models indicated COVID-19 as the first variable linked with surgical complications. As COVID-19 is identified as an additional surgical risk factor that overweighs traditional ones, they emphasize postponing surgery in patients with COVID-19 whenever possible.