Surveillance for COVID-19 in Cardiac Inpatients: Containing COVID-19 in a Specialized Cardiac Centre

Affiliations

¹ National Heart Centre Singapore and Singapore General Hospital, Singapore Health Services, Singapore. Electronic address: ian.wee@mohh.com.sg.
² National Heart Centre Singapore and Singapore General Hospital, Singapore Health Services, Singapore.

Comment

Liang En Wee et al. Can J Cardiol. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;36(8):1327.e3-1327.e4.

doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2020.05.031. Epub 2020 May 29.

¹ National Heart Centre Singapore and Singapore General Hospital, Singapore Health Services, Singapore. Electronic address: ian.wee@mohh.com.sg.
² National Heart Centre Singapore and Singapore General Hospital, Singapore Health Services, Singapore.

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Reduction in heart failure admissions with concomitant respiratory viral infections during the novel coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic: Unintended consequence of public health measures in Singapore.
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Containment of COVID-19 and reduction in healthcare-associated respiratory viral infections through a multi-tiered infection control strategy.
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