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Editorial
. 2020 Jul 6;6(2):00195-2020.
doi: 10.1183/23120541.00195-2020. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Global burden of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers

Eleni Papoutsi  1 , Vassilis G Giannakoulis  1 , Vasiliki Ntella  1 , Sofia Pappa  2 , Paraskevi Katsaounou  1
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Editorial

Global burden of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers

Eleni Papoutsi et al. ERJ Open Res. .

Abstract

Provision of PPE, placing experienced HCWs mostly in organisational positions, increasing testing, minimising exposure by adjusting shift schedules, and providing food and sleep facilities could be some restorative measures to protect HCWs from #COVID19 https://bit.ly/2zcVARW.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: V. Ntella has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: S. Pappa reports travel grants and honoraria from Janssen, Sunovion and Recordati outside the submitted work. Conflict of interest: V.G. Giannakoulis has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: E. Papoutsi has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: P. Katsaounou reports travel grants, honoraria and grants from Astra, GSK, Pfizer and Chiesi outside the submitted work.

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Global map depicting, in colour scale, the percentage healthcare workers (HCWs) among total cases in each region. Data for the following countries refer to certain regions: Australia (Victoria), Brazil (Sao Paolo), Canada (Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba and Ontario) and Indonesia (Jakarta). This map was created at https://www.mapchart.net/ and is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.
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Comment in

  • doi: 10.1183/23120541.50195-2020

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