You opened the post with the statement that you had problems with the article. That doesn't surprise me. Your mindset is such that you just cannot comprehend the FACT that deaths dropped because the hospitals were closed. Basically there would be no published literature anywhere in the world that could influence your constipated mindset if an article in the British Medical Journal can't.
Then you repeat moondoong's arrogance by stating the following without doing any research.
"There is always a risk in undergoing surgery, but statistically, they do waaay more good than harm."