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The novel coronavirus disease, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), outbreak rapidly generated an unparalleled global, national, and state public health crisis, and by March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO, 2020a) declared this international emergency a pandemic. As of July 21, 2020, globally there have been 14,562,550 confirmed cases and 607,781 deaths. In the United States (US) there have been 3,748,248 confirmed cases and 139,964 deaths (WHO, 2020b). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2019), the influenza outbreak of 1918 caused by the H1N1 virus was the most severe pandemic in recent history, and now, over a century later we are faced with the COVID-19 global pandemic that is not only threatening the public but overpowering our health care, public health, and economic systems. U.S. hospitals are being challenged to accommodate the unprecedented number of patients needing

Where patients are living Living with relatives after discharge 79 Living independently after discharge 14 Living long term in residential care after 0 discharge Required interim residential care on discharge 9 Transferred to other hospital 9 Some patients appear in more than one category.