The single-patient case report mentioned in the article involving 41 HCWs with under-protected high risk exposures:
https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2763329/covid-19-risk-health-care-workers-case-report
On 3/30/2020 at 11:42 AM, MunoRN said:The single-patient case report mentioned in the article involving 41 HCWs with under-protected high risk exposures:
https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2763329/covid-19-risk-health-care-workers-case-report
"We recognize the limitations of this single case report and acknowledge that additional studies are necessary to determine how best to protect health care workers from becoming infected with SARS-CoV while they are providing care for patients with COVID-19".
It's a matter of trust in your facility and the government which a lot of HCWs didn't have even before the *** hit the fan.
On 3/30/2020 at 12:42 PM, MunoRN said:The single-patient case report mentioned in the article involving 41 HCWs with under-protected high risk exposures:
https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2763329/covid-19-risk-health-care-workers-case-report
Good find on Atul's article!
MunoRN, RN
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Don't shoot the messenger on this one, I'm probably as skeptical of any suggestion that Covid-19 isn't anything other than highly transmissible as any of you, but there are surprises in the data we have so far. And coming from Atul Gawande adds some credibility for me at least.
The take away is that while Covid will gladly take advantage of any opening it can to spread, it may not take as much to close those openings as we think. When it comes to Covid, less might be more.
Keeping the Coronavirus From Infecting Health Care Workers by Atul Gawande, the New Yorker - https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/keeping-the-coronavirus-from-infecting-health-care-workers