COVID-19 response is moving too quickly to cancel scheduled and elective surgeries.Speaking on a broad number of issues in a year-end interview with Global News, Horgan says the province could have avoided pushing back many surgeries.“In hindsight, suspending elective surgeries, there wasn’t the surge we had anticipated in our acute care system,” Horgan said.“We could have potentially relieved some pain from British Columbians a little bit earlier.”On March 15, the province announced “fundamental changes” to the acute care system and cancelled all non-urgent, scheduled surgeries in a bid to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.The province never experienced the surge on hospitals and capacity pressures expected.