Mitigating healthcare staffing shortages: Should healthcare workers with severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) household exposures work?

Blanchard, Ana C.; Lamarre, Valérie; Lamarche, Josee; Audy, Nathalie; Quach, Caroline

doi:10.1017/ice.2022.195

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“…A very contagious and aggressive virus like SARS-CoV-2 can impair the health system causing facilities overload (6), shortage of healthcare personnel (7,8), shortage of medicalrelated supplies (6,9), physical and mental exhaustion of healthcare workers (10), and other human errors in managing the emergency (10,11) (impacted aspects). At the same time, poor healthcare can obviously increase COVID-19 (and other diseases) severity, fatality, and mortality.…”

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There is a need for more precise models to assess the determinants of health crises like COVID-19

Rovetta¹

2023

Front. Public Health

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on global mortality. While the causal relationship between SARS-CoV-2 and the anomalous increase in deaths is established, more precise and complex models are needed to determine the exact weight of epidemiological factors involved. Indeed, COVID-19 behavior is influenced by a wide range of variables, including demographic characteristics, population habits and behavior, healthcare performance, and environmental and seasonal risk factors. The bidirectional causality between impacted and impacting aspects, as well as confounding variables, complicates efforts to draw clear, generalizable conclusions regarding the effectiveness and cost-benefit ratio of non-pharmaceutical health countermeasures. Thus, it is imperative that the scientific community and health authorities worldwide develop comprehensive models not only for the current pandemic but also for future health crises. These models should be implemented locally to account for micro-differences in epidemiological characteristics that may have relevant effects. It is important to note that the lack of a universal model does not imply that local decisions have been unjustified, and the request to decrease scientific uncertainty does not mean denying the evidence of the effectiveness of the countermeasures adopted. Therefore, this paper must not be exploited to denigrate either the scientific community or the health authorities.

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confidence: 99%

There is a need for more precise models to assess the determinants of health crises like COVID-19

Rovetta¹

2023

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“…Impacted and impacting aspects. A very contagious and aggressive virus like SARS-CoV-2 can impair the health system causing facilities overload [6], shortage of healthcare personnel [7,8], shortage of medical-related supplies [6,9], physical and mental exhaustion of healthcare workers [10], and other human errors in managing the emergency (impacted aspects) [10,11]. At the same time, poor healthcare can obviously increase COVID-19 (and other diseases) severity, fatality, and mortality.…”

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There is a need for more precise models to assess the determinants of health crises like COVID-19

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2023

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on global mortality. While the causal relationship between SARS-CoV-2 and the anomalous increase in deaths is established, more precise and complex models are needed to determine the exact weight of epidemiological factors involved. Indeed, COVID-19 behavior is influenced by a wide range of variables, including demographic characteristics, population habits and behavior, healthcare performance, and environmental and seasonal risk factors. The bidirectional causality between impacted and impacting aspects, as well as confounding variables, complicates efforts to draw clear, generalizable conclusions regarding the effectiveness and cost-benefit ratio of non-pharmaceutical health countermeasures. Thus, it is imperative that the scientific community and health authorities worldwide develop comprehensive models not only for the current pandemic but also for future health crises. These should be implemented locally to account for micro-differences in epidemiological characteristics that may have relevant effects or, at least, to quantify the impact of the uncertainties. For instance, at present, it is not meaningful to compare the situations of different states. It is important to note that the lack of a universal model does not imply that local decisions have been unjustified, and the request to decrease scientific uncertainty does not mean denying the evidence of the effectiveness of the countermeasures adopted. Therefore, this paper must not be exploited to denigrate either the scientific community or the health authorities. In this regard, the author of this paper expresses their solidarity with the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic phenomenon and with those who made great responsibility decisions disposing only of limited and uncertain data during a period of extreme social tension.

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Mitigating healthcare staffing shortages: Should healthcare workers with severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) household exposures work?

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

There is a need for more precise models to assess the determinants of health crises like COVID-19

There is a need for more precise models to assess the determinants of health crises like COVID-19

There is a need for more precise models to assess the determinants of health crises like COVID-19

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