If you need your gallbladder removed or your knee replaced, you could be able to get such a procedure in Florida as early as May 9.
Florida hospitals, outpatient centers and doctors’ offices are putting plans in place to reopen for elective surgeries and other procedures when the governor’s executive order banning those procedures expires on May 8.
At a news briefing Monday, Gov. Ron DeSantis said hospitals can easily reopen for all medical procedures and still handle a potential rise in COVID-19 patients because forecasts about how many people would need to be hospitalized from the virus did not pan out.