CHICAGO, Ill. (Ivanhoe Newswire) As elective surgeries get the green light to resume, some patients may have concerns about getting surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, COVID-19 sidelined her knee replacement surgery twice. As elective surgeries begin to resume, some doctors are recommending their patients have surgery now in case there is another spike in COVID cases. We are testing all of our patients for COVID before they come in for surgery, said Dr. Patel. With the pause in elective surgeries, experts say it may take up to three or four months to resolve the back log of surgeries.