COVID-19: What Is Next for Portugal?

Highly infectious with the possibility of causing severe respiratory complications, the novel COVID-19 began stretching health systems beyond their capacity all over the world and pushing them to breaking points. Giving the devastating effects caused by this infection, unprecedented measures have to...

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Autores principales: Shaaban, Ahmed Nabil, Peleteiro, Barbara, Martins, Maria Rosario O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Public Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7471249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32974253
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00392
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description Highly infectious with the possibility of causing severe respiratory complications, the novel COVID-19 began stretching health systems beyond their capacity all over the world and pushing them to breaking points. Giving the devastating effects caused by this infection, unprecedented measures have to be adopted in order to mitigate its impacts on the health system. This perspective aims to review the epidemic of COVID-19 in Portugal, possible areas of improvement, and potential interventions that can help to mitigate the effect of COVID-19 on the Portuguese health system.
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spelling pubmed-74712492020-09-23 COVID-19: What Is Next for Portugal? Shaaban, Ahmed Nabil Peleteiro, Barbara Martins, Maria Rosario O. Front Public Health Public Health Highly infectious with the possibility of causing severe respiratory complications, the novel COVID-19 began stretching health systems beyond their capacity all over the world and pushing them to breaking points. Giving the devastating effects caused by this infection, unprecedented measures have to be adopted in order to mitigate its impacts on the health system. This perspective aims to review the epidemic of COVID-19 in Portugal, possible areas of improvement, and potential interventions that can help to mitigate the effect of COVID-19 on the Portuguese health system. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7471249/ /pubmed/32974253 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00392 Text en Copyright © 2020 Shaaban, Peleteiro and Martins. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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