This letter examines healthcare worker deaths by category and medical speciality during the COVID-19 emergency in Italy, and underlines factors that may have contributed to the elevated number of fatalities among healthcare personnel. These data are now available because Italy was the first western country to be severely affected. These are matters for urgent discussion as development goes forward.
Deaths from COVID-19 in healthcare workers in Italy - what can we learn? / Lapolla, Pierfrancesco; Mingoli, Andrea; Lee, Regent. - In: INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY. - ISSN 0899-823X. - 42:3(2020), pp. 364-365. [10.1017/ice.2020.241]
Deaths from COVID-19 in healthcare workers in Italy - what can we learn?
Lapolla, Pierfrancesco
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This letter examines healthcare worker deaths by category and medical speciality during the COVID-19 emergency in Italy, and underlines factors that may have contributed to the elevated number of fatalities among healthcare personnel. These data are now available because Italy was the first western country to be severely affected. These are matters for urgent discussion as development goes forward.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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