The greatest current threat to global health involves the pandemic outbreak of the novel coronavirus (CoV) that is structurally related to the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV) or Middle East respiratory syndrome, and is known as SARS-CoV-2.1 Human infection with SARS-CoV-2 was initially recognized in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has since been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).2,3 SARS-CoV-2 is highly contagious and containment has been a challenge given its high rate of transmissibility through respiratory droplets.