Conclusion
COVID-19 has remarkably affected thousands of lives all over the world. As a medical community, we have to organize healthcare resources to also face the usual pathologies that are still threatening our patients. The cardiac surgical community should reorganize and offer a system to treat the surgical population safely and efficiently: we should look for strategies to screen patients properly, to protect health care workers and to stratify procedures based on surgical priority and postoperative resource consumption. We need to consider that cardiac pathology could further endanger patients to suffer from more severe and potentially fatal COVID-19. Since we are multi-faceted professionals, every aspect of our life has to adapt to the new normal : wearing face masks, keeping social distance, practicing strict and frequent hygiene, as well as redirecting our surgical expertise towards the ones who are more susceptible to illness.