Protecting Healthcare Workers Amid the COVID-19 Crisis: A Safety Protocol in Wuhan
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- PMCID: PMC7578383
- DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.577499
Protecting Healthcare Workers Amid the COVID-19 Crisis: A Safety Protocol in Wuhan
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Corrigendum: Protecting Healthcare Workers Amid the COVID-19 Crisis: A Safety Protocol in Wuhan.Front Public Health. 2021 Mar 8;9:660323. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.660323. eCollection 2021. Front Public Health. 2021. PMID: 33763403 Free PMC article.
Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is caused by a distinct coronavirus, is an acute infectious disease that spreads mainly via the respiratory route. During the COVID-19 outbreak, many healthcare systems faced a severe burden when a large number of healthcare workers (HCWs) became infected due to the lack of adequate protection. Consequently, it was apparent that it is important to ensure the health and safety of HCWs in order to control the outbreak throughout society. In this article, we share our successful protocol for protecting the safety of HCWs in the course of their daily work in an orthopedics department with the aim of eventually reducing the risk of nosocomial infection. None of our HCWs or their families contracted the infection during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Wuhan; healthcare workers; protocol.
Copyright © 2020 Liu, Yang, Hung, Tong and Liu.
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- The State Council China . Wuhan Novel Coronavirus Prevention and Control Command Notice (no 1). (2020). Available online: http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2020-01/23/content_5471751.htm (accessed May 2, 2020).
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- World Health Organization . Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic. (2020). Available online at: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-Coronavirus-2019 (accessed August 5, 2020).
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