Most of the country remembers March 2020 as the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. For Dr. Yoko Furuya, coronavirus was already a big part of her daily life two months earlier, in January. Knowing that it was spreading in China, Dr. Furuya, the chief epidemiologist and medical director of Infection Prevention and Control for NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and her team were already preparing the hospital, putting together guidelines and educating staff about the virus that people knew so little about.