Hospital biopreparedness in the Looming Presence of SARS‐CoV‐2/COVID‐19

摘要

According to the World Health Organization, as of February 23, 2020, there have been over 78 000 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus that first caused illness in Wuhan, China: the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus. As quarantines and travel bans are put into place—frustrating public health experts—there is an increasing need to address the hospital dynamics of response to such biological events.