daup h i n cm s .org Features n early March 2020, medical students around the country received news from their respective administrators that they were to stay home in the essence of social distancing. The last time the doors of medical schools were closed almost universally across the country was in the 1940s during World War II. Medical Students Set an Uplifting Standard in an Unprecedented Time By ARSHJOT KHOKHAR, MS4 Penn State University College of Medicine 16 Spring 2020 Central PA Medicine Coronavirus Disease 2019, also known as COVID-19, as of March 2020, has become a national and truly worldwide emergency with unparalleled measures being taken nationwide by local, state and federal agencies to slow the spread and lessen the burden of this disease on healthcare systems. In the week since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, over 30,000 cases of COVID-19 had been reported with over 400 deaths in the United States alone. These numbers are likely to increase as the virus spreads and testing becomes more available. Regardless, this has become an unprecedented event in the healthcare industry.http://www.dauphincms.org