Hospitals Struggle to Restart Lucrative Elective Care After Coronavirus Shutdowns

[Follow our live world updates on the Coronavirus pandemic and outbreak.] The shutdown of elective surgeries and other “nonessential” medical care by federal and state officials during the pandemic has left the nation’s 5,200 hospitals, particularly in places where there have been relatively few infections, with idle clinics, vacant operating rooms and a dearth of patients. “Our hospitals, like every other hospital in the country, are half…