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The teams of President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden have taken vastly different stances on lockdowns as a COVID-19 mitigation strategy.

  Franklin County Medical Center executives named the Preston, Idaho-based hospital's new surgery center as part of its plan to be "the absolute preferred medical provider" in southeast Idaho, according to a Nov. 11 report from Cache Valley Daily.

  Companies are making progress on developing a COVID-19 vaccine, and experts are thinking about how it will be distributed among the population.

Healthcare will be front and center when President-elect Joe Biden and newly elected legislators are sworn in next year. 

Here are eight hospitals and health systems that opened or announced plans for ASCs in October:

Three leaders shared their predictions for robotics in ASCs over the next 12 months with Becker's ASC Review.

  A former surgical technician at New York City-based Gramercy Surgery Center allegedly was denied overtime pay despite requirements to work overtime, according to a lawsuit filed in New York's Southern District Court Nov. 5.

Joe Biden was elected as the 46th president of the U.S. Nov. 7, The New York Times reports.

  Here are the 10 most-read articles for Becker's ASC Review for the week of Nov. 2-6:

  Here are the top three ASCs in Northeast states named in Newsweek's ranking of "America's Best Ambulatory Surgery Centers 2021."