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As the world has sought to “flatten the curve” of COVID-19 cases to prevent overwhelming the healthcare system, governments have introduced measures such as social distancing and self-isolation to reduce viral spreading and allow healthcare systems to make critical adaptations for testing and triage capacity. Meanwhile, hospitals have found innovative ways to increase their capacity (beds, nurses, doctors) with adequate capabilities to treat COVID-19 patients. The responses range from transforming parking garages and gyms (eg, Vanderbilt and Yale Medical Centers) into care facilities to the use of Navy hospital ship deployment (in New York city) to building temporary facilities (in Hubei Province in China) to asking for retired medical professionals to return for help in treating COVID-19 patients. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators, and …