AGA Rapid Recommendations for Gastrointestinal Procedures During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In early December 2019, a series of pneumonia cases was reported in Wuhan, China resulting from a novel coronavirus infection designated as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses as of January 7, 2020, and named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by the World Health Organization (WHO) as of February 11, 2020.1 SARS-CoV-2 is a novel enveloped RNA betacoronavirus, that represents the seventh member of the coronavirus family, which includes 4 common human coronaviruses (229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1) and 2 other strains, including SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus (MERS-CoV).