COVID-19: Are We Ready for the Second Wave?

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has already exerted an enormous impact on the entire world. Everything is overwhelmed in the face of a rapid escalation of cases. The countries that have already reported the peak of transmission are easing their preventive measures yet fearing a seco...

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Autor principal: Ali, Inayat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Policy Analysis
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32379015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.149
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description The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has already exerted an enormous impact on the entire world. Everything is overwhelmed in the face of a rapid escalation of cases. The countries that have already reported the peak of transmission are easing their preventive measures yet fearing a second wave of infection. If the virus causes that next wave, are we sufficiently prepared to deal with it? I argue that the stakeholders concerned should simultaneously handle the ongoing pandemic while making effective preparations for its second wave. To relax the preventive measures, countries must thoroughly revisit their situations based on scientific evidence.
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spelling pubmed-72397722020-05-21 COVID-19: Are We Ready for the Second Wave? Ali, Inayat Disaster Med Public Health Prep Policy Analysis The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has already exerted an enormous impact on the entire world. Everything is overwhelmed in the face of a rapid escalation of cases. The countries that have already reported the peak of transmission are easing their preventive measures yet fearing a second wave of infection. If the virus causes that next wave, are we sufficiently prepared to deal with it? I argue that the stakeholders concerned should simultaneously handle the ongoing pandemic while making effective preparations for its second wave. To relax the preventive measures, countries must thoroughly revisit their situations based on scientific evidence. Cambridge University Press 2020-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7239772/ /pubmed/32379015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/dmp.2020.149 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7239772/
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