April 10, 2020
"Within a month of the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Health treating its first patient with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on Feb. 3, UCSF surgeons began formulating a plan to respond to the pandemic and help manage the health care system's available resources. The comprehensive rapid response plan--one of the earliest surgical strategies for handling the outbreak reported in the nation--appears online as an "article in press" on the Journal of the American College of Surgeons website. Journal of the American College of Surgeons article describes 'early and aggressive' actions that were taken to ensure enough hospital resources remain available."