Between March 15, 2020, and March 20, 2020, when our hospital instituted the policy forbidding “elective” surgery, 281 otolaryngology procedures already on the surgical schedule were canceled at the University Hospital based on the initial determination by the surgeons and their coordinators that they were elective. Another 215 patients had been pending surgical scheduling in our Otolaryngology Department but did not yet have an assigned date. An additional smaller number of scheduled ears, nose, and throat procedures were at some point in scheduling at our county hospital and were also canceled or not scheduled, approximately 50 cases.