2.A confirmed asymptomatic carrier of 2019 novel coronavirus.
Si-Hui LUO ; Wei LIU ; Zhen-Jun LIU ; Xue-Ying ZHENG ; Chang-Xing HONG ; Zhi-Rong LIU ; Jian LIU ; Jian-Ping WENG
Chinese Medical Journal 2020;133(9):1123-1125
5.From severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus to 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak: similarities in the early epidemics and prediction of future trends.
Ze-Liang CHEN ; Wen-Jun ZHANG ; Yi LU ; Cheng GUO ; Zhong-Min GUO ; Cong-Hui LIAO ; Xi ZHANG ; Yi ZHANG ; Xiao-Hu HAN ; Qian-Lin LI ; Jia-Hai LU
Chinese Medical Journal 2020;133(9):1112-1114
6.Love in the time of coronavirus: training and service during COVID-19.
Chen Seong WONG ; Woo Chiao TAY ; Xing Fu HAP ; Faith Li-Ann CHIA
Singapore medical journal 2020;61(7):384-386
Betacoronavirus
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Coronavirus Infections
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epidemiology
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transmission
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Disease Transmission, Infectious
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prevention & control
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Education, Medical, Graduate
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organization & administration
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Humans
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Internship and Residency
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organization & administration
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Pandemics
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Pneumonia, Viral
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epidemiology
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transmission
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Quality Improvement
8.A midpoint perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Li Yang HSU ; Po Ying CHIA ; Shawn VASOO
Singapore medical journal 2020;61(7):381-383
9.Investigation of protective exposure risk events in nurses against corona virus disease 2019 in Wuhan.
Qiu WANG ; Jin Yu GUO ; Hong SUN ; Ling WANG ; Ju Su YING ; Hui Xin LIU
Journal of Peking University(Health Sciences) 2020;52(4):711-714
OBJECTIVE:
To investigate the current situation of virus exposure risk incidents of nurses against corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan, and to provide reference evidence for nursing managers to protect nursing staff who were working in the isolation ward.
METHODS:
In the study, 308 nursing staff against COVID-19 working in the isolation ward in Wuhan were conveniently selected to participate in the investigation. The designed questionnaires including 7 kinds of protective exposure risk events were made by the team of researchers on the basis of literature review and interview with the nurses in Wuhan. All the participants recalled their working experience in the status of dressing in personal protective equipment and filled in the questionnaires online by WeChat according to the same instruction.
RESULTS:
The questionnaires were filled in validly by a total of 304 nursing staff, of whom 88.8% received emergency training on the prevention and dealing measurement of exposure risk events. The incidence of shoe cover contamination, falling off or torn was relatively high, about 53.6%. Due to the protection of gloves, the incidence of hand or skin contamination was relatively low, about 14.1%. The most nervousness of protective exposure risk event for nurses was N95 mask contamination, falling off or shifting, with a score of 8.2±2.3, showing a higher psychiatric burden. Single factor analysis found that the number of days in Wuhan was different, the number of the types of protective risk events occurred was different (χ2=14.562, P=0.024), orderly multivariate Logistic regression found that men were the independent protective factor for the number of the types of protective exposure risk events that occurred (P=0.019).
CONCLUSION
Protective exposure risk events may occur in the work of nursing staff working in the isolation ward in Wuhan. It is necessary to guide nurses to prevent the occurrence of protective exposure risk events and effectively deal with them, so as to prevent virus exposure and reduce psycholo-gical burden.
Betacoronavirus
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COVID-19
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China
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Coronavirus Infections/transmission*
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Ear Protective Devices
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Humans
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Male
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Occupational Exposure/prevention & control*
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Pandemics/prevention & control*
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Pneumonia, Viral/transmission*
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Risk Factors
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SARS-CoV-2
10.Principles and suggestions on biosafety protection of biological specimen preservation during prevalence of COVID-19.
Xiaoyan ZHANG ; Wei SUN ; Shiqiang SHANG ; Jianhua MAO ; Junfen FU ; Qiang SHU ; Kewen JIANG
Journal of Zhejiang University. Medical sciences 2020;49(2):170-177
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a grade B infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). In pace with the spreading of the disease, biosafety risk of the biological specimen preservation in biobanks has been significantly increased and biosafety protection during biological specimen preservation become increasingly important. According to the related national rules and the corresponding guidelines of Chinese Medical Association, this paper introduced the etiology about SARS-CoV-2, epidemiology about COVID-19, and the biosafety protection principles of individuals and biological specimen storage places in the process of personal protection, protection of collection, transport, handling, preservation, detection, post-detection disposal and emergencies of biological specimen. Emphasized to carry out a strict biosafety-risk assessment on biological specimen basing on virus load information, infectivity, and sample type (possible contact transmission, aerosol transmission, and fecal oral transmission).
Betacoronavirus
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isolation & purification
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Containment of Biohazards
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standards
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Coronavirus Infections
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epidemiology
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prevention & control
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transmission
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Humans
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Pandemics
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prevention & control
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Pneumonia, Viral
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epidemiology
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prevention & control
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transmission
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Prevalence
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Risk Assessment
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Specimen Handling
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standards