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Author: Nancy Binkin; Stefania Salmaso; Federica Michieletto; Francesca Russo
Title: Protecting our health care workers while protecting our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison of approaches and early outcomes in two Italian regions, Italy, 2020
  • Document date: 2020_4_14
  • ID: asu17dea_38
    Snippet: The explosive nature of the epidemic in Lombardy rapidly overwhelmed its initial efforts to maintain separate COVID-19 facilities, and it became necessary to admit cases to hospitals containing non-COVID patients. Having COVID-19-dedicated facilities in Veneto in the first weeks of the epidemic, which involved moving non-COVID patients to other facilities to allow creation of COVID-19-specific hospitals and convalescent centers, may also have con.....
    Document: The explosive nature of the epidemic in Lombardy rapidly overwhelmed its initial efforts to maintain separate COVID-19 facilities, and it became necessary to admit cases to hospitals containing non-COVID patients. Having COVID-19-dedicated facilities in Veneto in the first weeks of the epidemic, which involved moving non-COVID patients to other facilities to allow creation of COVID-19-specific hospitals and convalescent centers, may also have contributed to limiting health care worker infection and the spread in the community to vulnerable non-COVID patients and their visitors. This strategy also allowed exposed HCWs to more efficiently and effectively use scarce personal protective equipment (PPE). Furthermore, heavy environmental contamination has been documented in locations where care is provided for COVID-19 patients (19) and maintaining adequate protection to prevent transmission to uninfected patients may be particularly difficult in overwhelmed hospitals that have limited supplies of PPE.

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