On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization declared the global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), or COVID-19, a pandemic, making this novel coronavirus the third pandemic of the twenty-first century.1 Two days later, on March 13, 2020, the United States declared a national emergency to contain the spread of this potentially life-threatening virus. An estimated two million cases have been confirmed worldwide, with over one hundred thousand deaths. COVID-19 is a positive, single-stranded RNA virus that can ultima…