Drawing on Israel’s Experience Organizing Volunteers to Operationalize Drive-Through Coronavirus Testing Centers

To increase the country’s capacity to test and track suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, Israel launched drive-through testing centers in key cities, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Be’er Sheva, and Haifa. This article examines the challenges that the national emergency medical servi...

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Autor principal: Kim, Edward
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Report from the Field
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7180327/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32295659
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.104
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spelling pubmed-71803272020-04-24 Drawing on Israel’s Experience Organizing Volunteers to Operationalize Drive-Through Coronavirus Testing Centers Kim, Edward Disaster Med Public Health Prep Report from the Field To increase the country’s capacity to test and track suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, Israel launched drive-through testing centers in key cities, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Be’er Sheva, and Haifa. This article examines the challenges that the national emergency medical services and volunteers faced in the process of implementing drive-through testing centers to offer lessons learned and direction to health-care professionals in other countries. Cambridge University Press 2020-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7180327/ /pubmed/32295659 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.104 Text en © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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