Fangcang shelter hospitals in COVID-19 pandemic: the practice and its significance

L Shang¹, J Xu², B Cao³

Affiliations

¹ Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China; Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center of Respiratory Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China; Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
² Tsinghua University School of Medicine, Beijing, China.
³ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center of Respiratory Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China; Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life Sciences, Beijing, China; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. Electronic address: caobin_ben@163.com.

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L Shang et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;26(8):976-978.

doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.04.038. Epub 2020 May 1.

L Shang¹, J Xu², B Cao³

¹ Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China; Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center of Respiratory Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China; Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
² Tsinghua University School of Medicine, Beijing, China.
³ Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center of Respiratory Medicine, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China; Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China; Tsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life Sciences, Beijing, China; Department of Respiratory Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. Electronic address: caobin_ben@163.com.

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Keywords: COVID-19; Fangcang shelter hospital; Health policy; Infection control; Pandemic.

Conflict of interest statement

Transparency declaration All authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. No financial support was received for the present work.

Clinical characteristics of non-critically ill patients with novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in a Fangcang Hospital.
Wang X, Fang J, Zhu Y, Chen L, Ding F, Zhou R, Ge L, Wang F, Chen Q, Zhang Y, Zhao Q. Wang X, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020 Aug;26(8):1063-1068. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2020.03.032. Epub 2020 Apr 3. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2020. PMID: 32251842 Free PMC article.

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