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Hospitals are canceling elective surgeries because they can’t access patient data.

Hospital systems from New York to Massachusetts to Pennsylvania impacted by the CrowdStrike outage say they’re canceling appointments and shifting to pen and paper. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC had said it would “pause the start of any procedure that requires anesthesia,” according to NBC News, though it’s site now says most of its systems are back online.

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