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Emerging zoonotic infections are a major threat to public health. The current outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is already overwhelming health care systems across the globe. 1, 2 At the time of this writing it has already spread to 181 countries involving close to 1 million patients. 3 Health care resources including ventilators, dialysis machines, ECMO machines, and personal protective equipment (PPE) are finite. In the United States, intensive care units typically run at 90% of capacity and have little surge capacity. 4 In China and Italy, there have been reports of care rationing as the supply of key resources such as ventilators has been outstripped by the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. 5 Due to poor survival of patients requiring chest compression and resuscitation, some hospitals in the United States are also discussing universal do not resuscitation orders (DNR) for patients with COVID …