Elizalde GJJ

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Last February, I was invited as a speaker to the 49th SCCM Congress in Orlando, Florida; one of the assigned topics: 2019 Novel-Coronavirus captured my imagination. As I was going through the literature to prepare for the lecture, catastrophic scenarios came to my mind and I could imagine crowded emergency services and intensive care units with sustained occupancy of 100% and more, reconversion of services and entire hospitals, empty streets, squares, restaurants and shops, stopped human activity, as well as enormous fear and great global uncertainty, a worse atmosphere than that experienced in Mexico City in 2009 during the influenza pandemic AH1N1.