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OrthoArizona, based in Phoenix, is halting elective surgeries amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here are eight key facts about orthopedic surgeons and practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medtronic is publicly sharing its ventilation design specifications to accelerate global ventilator production efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a March 30 announcement.

Sports medicine specialist Jason Smith, DO, is already clocking long hours as the Toledo-Lucas County (Ohio) Health Board's new part-time medical director, according to The Toledo Blade.

An employee at Carolina Orthopedics tested positive for COVID-19, according to a statement on the practice's website.

Lehigh Valley Physician Group in Allentown, Pa., is the most recent example of physician groups furloughing staff and turning to telemedicine in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from cut .

Silicon Valley Orthopaedics is providing walk-in orthopedic services at its facility in Fremont, Calif., as the COVID-19 outbreak leads other groups to temporarily close, according to a March 26 announcement.

Mercy Clinic Orthopedics opened a walk-in clinic at its office in Fort Smith, Ark., the Times Record reports.

Sports medicine physicians are in the middle of a conundrum as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates: Are the injuries professional athletes suffer considered elective surgeries or not?

Farmington, Conn.-based UConn Health physician Cory Edgar, MD, PhD, was arrested after he intentionally coughed on other hospital employees, Eye Witness News 3 reports.