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Dr. James Andrews Will Not Perform Tommy John Surgery During COVID-19 Pandemic

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Athletes preferring Dr. James Andrews to perform their Tommy John surgeries will have to wait.

"We are not performing any non-urgent or non-emergent procedures, including Tommy John surgery, in compliance with the governor's executive order," a spokesperson at Florida's Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine said, per Alex Speier of the Boston Globe. "We are adhering to these restrictions and all such cases are suspended at this time."

Florida Governor Rick DeSantis ordered providers to limit all "'non-essential' elective medical and surgical procedures" earlier this month, as the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly spreads across the United States.