Daniel A. Goldstein, MD

The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has led to expectations of global deaths numbering in the hundreds of thousands. Promising therapeutic strategies have emerged slower than society would prefer. COVID-related deaths in the United States exceed 86,000 as of this writing, with projections as high as 134,000.