On May 8, 2020, this report was posted online as an MMWR Early Release.Jeanne M. Santoli, MD1; Megan C. Lindley, MPH1; Malini B.
DeSilva, MD2; Elyse O. Kharbanda, MD2; Matthew F. Daley, MD3; Lisa Galloway1; Julianne Gee, MPH4; Mick Glover5; Ben Herring6; Yoonjae Kang, MPH1; Paul Lucas, MS1; Cameron Noblit, MPH1; Jeanne Tropper, MPH, MS, MBA1; Tara Vogt, PhD1; Eric Weintraub, MPH4 (View author affiliations)Views equals page views plus PDF downloads On March 13, 2020, the president of the United States declared a national emergency in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic (1).
With reports of laboratory-confirmed cases in all 50 states by that time (2), disruptions were anticipated in the U.S. health care system’s.