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Abbreviated timeline of development for AHA’s COVID-19 CVD Registry Powered by Get With The Guidelines®. Following the first known reports of the novel coronavirus globally^{11, 12} and within the United States¹³, the American Heart Association COVID-19 CVD Registry Quality Improvement program and platform was conceptualized. Four weeks after the Registry was announced, the first records were uploaded into the platform. An aggregated, deidentified aggregate dataset will be available for investigator-initiated analyses.