COVID-19: a heavy toll on health-care workers

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada; Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada; Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada. Electronic address: geeta.mehta@utoronto.ca.
² Anesthesiology, Pain and Intensive Care Department, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
³ Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
⁴ Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Aix-Marseille Université, Hôpital Nord, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille, France.
⁵ Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
⁶ Service de Médecine Intensive et Reanimation, Saint-Louis Hospital and Paris University, Paris, France.
⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada; University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada; Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada.

Sangeeta Mehta et al. Lancet Respir Med. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;9(3):226-228.

doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00068-0. Epub 2021 Feb 5.

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada; Sinai Health System, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada; Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada. Electronic address: geeta.mehta@utoronto.ca.
² Anesthesiology, Pain and Intensive Care Department, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
³ Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda.
⁴ Médecine Intensive Réanimation, Aix-Marseille Université, Hôpital Nord, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille, France.
⁵ Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
⁶ Service de Médecine Intensive et Reanimation, Saint-Louis Hospital and Paris University, Paris, France.
⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada; University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada; Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada.

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