Reasons for healthcare workers becoming infected with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China

Wang, Jiancong; Zhou, Min; Liu, Fangfei

doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2020.03.002

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“…Healthcare workers (HCWs) working on the frontlines need to be protected adequately, or they risk catching COVID-19 and even dying [12]. This is also applicable to personnel such as ambulance drivers and military troops.…”

Section: Personal Protective Equipment (Ppe)mentioning

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Managing COVID-19 in resource-limited settings: critical care considerations

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Section: Personal Protective Equipment (Ppe)mentioning

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Managing COVID-19 in resource-limited settings: critical care considerations

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“…13 Therefore, early detection and cohort of patients suspected to have infections with the novel coronavirus were important to protect the healthcare workers so that they could manage the suspected cases with appropriate PPE in clinic areas equipped with ventilation system fulfilling the infection control requirement. 14,15 In order to reduce the risk of nosocomial infections among healthcare workers and other patients, an enhanced triage and cohort system was implemented in one of the seven clusters of Hospital Authority in Hong Kong from 25 February 2020. Enhanced triage and cohort system in GOPCs…”

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Enhancing the triage and cohort of patients in public primary care clinics in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Hong Kong: an experience from a hospital cluster

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“…Our results predict that Sweden's healthcare capacity (both for COVID-19 patients and for others) will be rapidly overwhelmed under the current strategy, both through the need to care for COVID-19 patients and because healthcare workers will themselves become ill and unable to work. [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49] Intensive care capacity is projected to become a particular bottleneck, as shown in other countries. [50][51][52] For Sweden, this is in particular worrisome considering the relatively low availability of beds prior to the pandemic compared to other European countries 22 24 and recent reports challenging Swedish disaster preparedness.…”

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Intervention strategies against COVID-19 and their estimated impact on Swedish healthcare capacity

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Willem

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Objectives: During March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread globally, and non-pharmaceutical interventions are being used to reduce both the load on the healthcare system as well as overall mortality. Design: Individual-based transmission modelling using Swedish demographic and Geographical Information System data and conservative COVID-19 epidemiological parameters. Setting: Sweden Participants: A model to simulate all 10.09 million Swedish residents. Interventions: 5 different non-pharmaceutical public-health interventions including the mitigation strategy of the Swedish government as of 10 April; isolation of the entire household of confirmed cases; closure of schools and non-essential businesses with or without strict social distancing; and strict social distancing with closure of schools and non-essential businesses. Main outcome measures: Estimated acute care and intensive care hospitalisations, COVID-19 attributable deaths, and infections among healthcare workers from 10 April until 29 June. Findings: Our model for Sweden shows that, under conservative epidemiological parameter estimates, the current Swedish public-health strategy will result in a peak intensive-care load in May that exceeds pre-pandemic capacity by over 40-fold, with a median mortality of 96,000 (95% CI 52,000 to 183,000). The most stringent public-health measures examined are predicted to reduce mortality by approximately three-fold. Intensive-care load at the peak could be reduced by over two-fold with a shorter period at peak pandemic capacity. Conclusions: Our results predict that, under conservative epidemiological parameter estimates, current measures in Sweden will result in at least 40-fold over-subscription of pre-pandemic Swedish intensive care capacity, with 15.8 percent of Swedish healthcare workers unable to work at the pandemic peak. Modifications to ICU admission criteria from international norms would further increase mortality.

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Reasons for healthcare workers becoming infected with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China

Cited by 687 publications

References 2 publications

Managing COVID-19 in resource-limited settings: critical care considerations

Managing COVID-19 in resource-limited settings: critical care considerations

Enhancing the triage and cohort of patients in public primary care clinics in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Hong Kong: an experience from a hospital cluster

Intervention strategies against COVID-19 and their estimated impact on Swedish healthcare capacity

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