and liver function test checks on admission to better quantify and qualify the association of these symptoms with COVID-19. Based on findings from our meta-analysis, we provide several Best Practice Statements for the consultative management of COVID-19.

The coronavirus family has 4 common human coronaviruses (ie, 229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1) associated with the common cold, and 3 strains that are associated with pneumonia, respiratory failure, and death, including SARS-CoV (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus), MERS-CoV (Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus), and SARS-CoV-2.1 The novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was first described in December 2019 in patients in Wuhan, China who developed severe pneumonia, and was named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2