The response in Taiwan was rapid and based on both its proximity to China and its experiences during the SARS pandemic ≈2 decades earlier ( 5, 7, 8). The outbreak of this unusual respiratory disease led to a wide variety of responses by various countries across the world ( 3– 6). The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, originated in China in late 2019, probably in the city of Wuhan ( 1, 2). Chen) National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei (C.-C. Chen) Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Public Health, Taipei (W.-J. Chen,) Center for Neuropsychiatric Research, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli (W.-J. Wu) Wei-Gong Memorial Hospital, Miaoli, Taiwan (Y.-L. Weng) TMU Research Center of Urology and Kidney, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan (Y.-L. Tsai) National Yang-Ming University, Taipei (H.-Y. Shu) National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan (R. Shih) Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan (H.-Y. Shih) Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan (Y.-N. Shih) Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan (Y.-N. Tsai) Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan (Y.-N. Yu) Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan (H.-C. ![]() Author affiliations: National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan (P.-L.
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