Doctors in hospitals in coronavirus epicenters such as New York City are reporting "apocalyptic" scenes of death, disease, and lack of equipment to protect healthcare workers from infection.But less-affected hospitals anticipating local outbreaks should be thinking creatively and acting urgently to care for COVID-19 patients before, during, and after the pandemic, hospital preparedness experts say."Hospitals should be working round the clock to prepare extra personnel," said Eric Toner, MD, senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore and co-author of a paper on hospital preparedness in Clinicians' Biosecurity News and a commentary in JAMA. "We don't know how much time hospitals have, and it's not going to be the