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Now it seems healthcare workers are readily getting infected. "A study has found that 40 health-care workers were infected with the novel coronavirus by patien
by pnw_hazor 7y ago
Now it seems healthcare workers are readily getting infected.
"A study has found that 40 health-care workers were infected with the novel coronavirus by patients at a single Wuhan hospital in January, underscoring the risks to those at the frontlines of the growing epidemic."
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-chinas-death-toll-hits-717-as-hubei-province-reports-81-new-fatalities https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/coronavirus-chin...
- russli1993 7y agoyeah, in the early days, before mid of January, health care workers did not know what it was so a significant number got infected. And in the early days the local hospitals were overwhelmed with patients and the supplies were running short, some got infected. Now there are a lot of medical staff coming from other regions, and staff is pretty well protected. Hopefully we do not hear anymore medical staff infected.
- tim333 7y agoFrom the main article: >...South Central Hospital. The deputy director went there to help in their ICU. He found that two-thirds of the medical staff in the ICU were already infected. I was thinking maybe they should get low risk health workers (young fit) to deliberately get the virus under holiday conditions and then return to run the hospitals when immune.