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
Primo
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
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Mingoli, Andrea
Secondo
Writing – Review & Editing
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2020

Abstract

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.
2020
COVID-19; PPE; deaths; healthcare workers; hospital infection; non-hospital healthcare; nursing-care homes
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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]
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