A small cluster of cases of the disease now known as COVID-19 was first reported on December 29, 2019, in the Chinese city of Wuhan (World Health Organization, 2020a). By early May 2020, the disease had spread to all global regions, and overwhelmed some the world’s most developed health systems. More than 2.8 million cases and 260,000 deaths had been confirmed globally, and the vast majority of countries with confirmed cases were reporting escalating transmission (World Health Organization, 2020b).