Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has focused attention on the anesthesia workforce around the world. In many countries, anesthesiologists have had to work in critical care units as well as the operating room, and deficiencies in the number of anesthesiologists have been laid bare. Anesthesiologists in low-resource environments, already at risk of overwork, stress, and burnout,1,2 are likely to have been hit hard by the effects of the pandemic.