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To the Editor, In December 2019, China reported an outbreak of a new coronavirus in Wuhan, China. Since then the number of SARS‐CoV‐2 positive patients has expanded exponentially over several continents in only a few weeks. The first case in the United States was diagnosed in February of 2020 and by mid‐March there were over 400 000 positive cases, leading to a great strain on our health care system. The Chinese and Iranian experience led to international efforts to institute various types of isolation techniques from quarantine to social distancing. Italy, who may have failed to implement some of these measures soon enough, has demonstrated high mortality related to this disease. Other European countries have shown that social distancing may have been a key preventive mechanism. The Miami Transplant Institute is the highest volume transplant center in the United States, and we are frontline in contributing to faculty, staff, expertise, and cutting‐edge technology to care for these patients. We have outlined here a few of the therapeutic modalities currently being used or under consideration at our institution.