Protecting health-care workers from subclinical coronavirus infection

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Third Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China; Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
² Institute for Medical Device Standardization Administration, National Institute for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China.
³ Section of Pediatric Pulmonary, Allergy, Immunology and Sleep Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
⁴ Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
⁵ Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Electronic address: charles.delacruz@yale.edu.

De Chang et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2020 Mar.

. 2020 Mar;8(3):e13.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30066-7. Epub 2020 Feb 13.

¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Third Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China; Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
² Institute for Medical Device Standardization Administration, National Institute for Food and Drug Control, Beijing, China.
³ Section of Pediatric Pulmonary, Allergy, Immunology and Sleep Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
⁴ Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
⁵ Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. Electronic address: charles.delacruz@yale.edu.

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