Geographical and Epidemiological Characteristics of 3,487 Confirmed Cases With COVID-19 Among Healthcare Workers in China

As the first area to report the outbreak, China used to be the front line of the battle against the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The present descriptive analysis of 3,487 COVID-19-confirmed cases with health workers reported through April 30, 2020 offers important new information to the internation...

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Autores principales: Feng, Maohui, Li, Zhixiao, Xiong, Jun, Xu, Weiguo, Xiang, Boqi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Public Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7870986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33575237
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.586736
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Li, Zhixiao
Xiong, Jun
Xu, Weiguo
Xiang, Boqi
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description As the first area to report the outbreak, China used to be the front line of the battle against the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The present descriptive analysis of 3,487 COVID-19-confirmed cases with health workers reported through April 30, 2020 offers important new information to the international community on the epidemic in China. These data showed that Chinese measures including the high-grade protective gear used, mask wearing, and social distancing, are effective in reducing transmission in hospitals.
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spelling pubmed-78709862021-02-10 Geographical and Epidemiological Characteristics of 3,487 Confirmed Cases With COVID-19 Among Healthcare Workers in China Feng, Maohui Li, Zhixiao Xiong, Jun Xu, Weiguo Xiang, Boqi Front Public Health Public Health As the first area to report the outbreak, China used to be the front line of the battle against the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The present descriptive analysis of 3,487 COVID-19-confirmed cases with health workers reported through April 30, 2020 offers important new information to the international community on the epidemic in China. These data showed that Chinese measures including the high-grade protective gear used, mask wearing, and social distancing, are effective in reducing transmission in hospitals. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7870986/ /pubmed/33575237 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.586736 Text en Copyright © 2021 Feng, Li, Xiong, Xu and Xiang. 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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Feng, Maohui
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Xu, Weiguo
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Geographical and Epidemiological Characteristics of 3,487 Confirmed Cases With COVID-19 Among Healthcare Workers in China
title Geographical and Epidemiological Characteristics of 3,487 Confirmed Cases With COVID-19 Among Healthcare Workers in China
title_full Geographical and Epidemiological Characteristics of 3,487 Confirmed Cases With COVID-19 Among Healthcare Workers in China
title_fullStr Geographical and Epidemiological Characteristics of 3,487 Confirmed Cases With COVID-19 Among Healthcare Workers in China
title_full_unstemmed Geographical and Epidemiological Characteristics of 3,487 Confirmed Cases With COVID-19 Among Healthcare Workers in China
title_short Geographical and Epidemiological Characteristics of 3,487 Confirmed Cases With COVID-19 Among Healthcare Workers in China
title_sort geographical and epidemiological characteristics of 3,487 confirmed cases with covid-19 among healthcare workers in china
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7870986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33575237
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.586736
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