email article Recently, Los Angeles County's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency has been in the news for its decision to stop transporting cardiac arrest patients to hospitals. This termination-of-resuscitation guideline, made in the context of soaring patient volumes and worries about overwhelming medical resources thanks to COVID-19, has led to concern that EMS personnel will abandon patients and provide suboptimal care. We are here to tell you that this is not the case. In fact, their decision will likely end up saving lives and is consistent with best evidence-based practice. We are two emergency medicine physicians who work in Baltimore. You may be wondering how that qualifies us to speak on what is occurring in L.A. County. Well, although Baltimore and Los Angeles County may not be geographically close to one another, the state of Maryland also has guidelines for EMS termination of resuscitation. In fact, Maryland adopted its policy years ago. The decision made by the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services System was not based on a global pandemic but rather scientific evidence.