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To the Editor: We read with interest the paper by Brindle et al. The authors introduce the strategic triage of hospitals in the America during the pandemic. SARS-CoV-2 has caused an ongoing world pandemic of COVID-19 since the end of 2019. Triage after the pandemic is as crucial as it was during the pandemic. However, as Brindle et al highlighted, there is still no good blueprint for resumption of medical and surgical services in health system during postCOVID-19 era. Here, we introduce our outpatient triage strategy for surgical departments at the end of COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan, China. Considering risk of transmission from asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic persons, all patients are required to have COVID-19 related screening tests before surgery according to the demobilization strategy in our surgical department after pandemic. Such a COVID-19-related screening is composed of three tests, chest computed tomography (CT) scanning, viral nucleic acid testing, and serological antibody testing. According to these results, we triage patients for timely admission