A highly infectious disease originating in Wuhan, China, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has posed an unprecedented challenge, creating a host of stressors for health care providers in addition to clinical issues treating patients with this disease. In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic.1  By the end of June 2020, there were more than 500 000 deaths and 11 million infected persons globally. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can spread rapidly; health care workers need to protect themselves as well as their families. Complicating this, at the beginning of the outbreak, there were shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) for health care workers in the United States and elsewhere.

In addition to managing the clinical issues surrounding treating patients with COVID-19, clinical staff have been impacted by numerous ethical dilemmas including restricted visitation, particularly at end of...

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