Table 1.

Surge in weekly census of COVID-19 confirmed patients with AKI at Montefiore Medical Center

	March 10–16	March 17–23	March 24–30	March 31–April 6
Weekly AKI consults	12	38	62	78
Weekly acute RRT	4	10	52	75
Weekly hospital COVID-19 patient census	2–18	26–163	233–560	625–877
IExpansion of intensive care units	7	7	9	16
Expansion of nephrology services	6	6	8	10

A Nephrology Task Force was created to develop strategies to handle workflow and the expanding census of patients with AKI and acute RRT (Table 2).