Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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To document the experiences of converting a general hospital to a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) designated hospital during an outbreak in Daegu, Republic of Korea. ⋯ Centralized coordination in frontline hospital operation, staff management, and patient treatment and placement allowed for successful pooling and utilization of medical resources and manpower during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Dec 2020
Fangcang shelter hospitals during the COVID-19 epidemic, Wuhan, China.
To design models of the spread of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan and the effect of Fangcang shelter hospitals (rapidly-built temporary hospitals) on the control of the epidemic. ⋯ While the designated hospitals saved lives of patients with severe COVID-19, it was the increased hospital-bed capacity of the large number of Fangcang shelter hospitals that helped slow and eventually stop the COVID-19 epidemic in Wuhan. Given the current global pandemic of COVID-19, our study suggests that increasing hospital-bed capacity, especially through temporary hospitals such as Fangcang shelter hospitals, to isolate groups of people with mild symptoms within an affected region could help curb and eventually stop COVID-19 outbreaks in communities where effective household isolation is not possible.
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The novel coronavirus pandemic is increasing demand for digital health in primary care delivery, highlighting the progress being made and the challenges still faced. Gary Humphreys reports.
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Sep 2020
Melanie Saville: the end-to-end process needed for a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.
Melanie Saville talks to Gary Humphreys about the specific challenges faced in developing and distributing SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and the need to fund end-to-end approaches to support those aims.
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Sep 2020
Simulation of pooled-sample analysis strategies for COVID-19 mass testing.
To evaluate two pooled-sample analysis strategies (a routine high-throughput approach and a novel context-sensitive approach) for mass testing during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with an emphasis on the number of tests required to screen a population. ⋯ Pooled-sample PCR screening could save resources during COVID-19 mass testing. In particular, the novel context-sensitive approach, which uses pooled samples from homogeneous population groups, could substantially reduce the number of tests required to screen a population. Pooled-sample approaches could help countries sustain population screening over extended periods of time and thereby help contain foreseeable second-wave outbreaks.