Learning from the Italian experience during COVID-19 pandemic waves: be prepared and mind some crucial aspects

COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread worldwide causing a serious challenge to the global medical community. Italy was struck hard during the first wave earlier this year and several weaknesses as well as general unpreparedness of the national healthcare system were acknowledged. Learning essential l...

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Autores principales: Deana, Cristian, Rovida, Serena, Orso, Daniele, Bove, Tiziana, Bassi, Flavio, De Monte, Amato, Vetrugno, Luigi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mattioli 1885 2021
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Original Investigations/Commentaries
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8182622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33988143
http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v92i2.11159
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author Deana, Cristian
Rovida, Serena
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description COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread worldwide causing a serious challenge to the global medical community. Italy was struck hard during the first wave earlier this year and several weaknesses as well as general unpreparedness of the national healthcare system were acknowledged. Learning essential lessons from the past, we realized how implementing contingency response measures, human resources and social dynamics could have changed the outcome if promptly adopted. This review translates the previous experience into strategic actions that has to be considered when developing appropriate national and regional operational plans to respond to a pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-81826222021-06-16 Learning from the Italian experience during COVID-19 pandemic waves: be prepared and mind some crucial aspects Deana, Cristian Rovida, Serena Orso, Daniele Bove, Tiziana Bassi, Flavio De Monte, Amato Vetrugno, Luigi Acta Biomed Original Investigations/Commentaries COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread worldwide causing a serious challenge to the global medical community. Italy was struck hard during the first wave earlier this year and several weaknesses as well as general unpreparedness of the national healthcare system were acknowledged. Learning essential lessons from the past, we realized how implementing contingency response measures, human resources and social dynamics could have changed the outcome if promptly adopted. This review translates the previous experience into strategic actions that has to be considered when developing appropriate national and regional operational plans to respond to a pandemic. Mattioli 1885 2021 2021-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8182622/ /pubmed/33988143 http://dx.doi.org/10.23750/abm.v92i2.11159 Text en Copyright: © 2020 ACTA BIO MEDICA SOCIETY OF MEDICINE AND NATURAL SCIENCES OF PARMA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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