ratory 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, 2020.2 COVID-19 is estimated to have