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The Emergency Department Admitting Team: A Crisis Response to an Unprecedented Surge of Critically Ill Patients During COVID-19

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In the last week of March and first week of April 2020, hospitals across New York City were overwhelmed with critically ill COVID-19 patients, many of whom had unprecedented oxygen requirements. From April 6 to May 3, 2020, 90 patients were admitted to the EDAT. 2020;e203391. Results are presented in Table 1. JAMA Intern Med.