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Protecting health-care workers from subclinical coronavirus infection.
The Lancet Respiratory Medicine ( IF 76.2 ) Pub Date : 2020-02-13 , DOI: 10.1016/s2213-2600(20)30066-7
De Chang ₁ , Huiwen Xu ₂ , Andre Rebaza ₃ , Lokesh Sharma ₄ , Charles S Dela Cruz ₄

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Health-care workers face an elevated risk of exposure to infectious diseases, including the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in China. It is imperative to ensure the safety of health-care workers not only to safeguard continuous patient care but also to ensure they do not transmit the virus. COVID-19 can spread via cough or respiratory droplets, contact with bodily fluids, or from contaminated surfaces. According to recent guidelines from the China National Health Commission, pneumonia caused by COVID-19 was included as a Group B infectious disease, which is in the same category as other infectious viruses such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). However, current guidelines suggest ensuring protective measures for all health-care workers similar to those indicated for Group A infections—a category reserved for highly infectious pathogens, such as cholera and plague. WHO confirmed 8098 cases and 774 (9·6%) deaths during the SARS outbreak in 2002, of which health-care workers accounted for 1707 (21%) cases.

更新日期：2020-03-03

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