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COVID's Impact on Health and Healthcare Workers highlights the most critical issues in COVID-19's impact on healthcare providers and on hospitals. This includes factors associated with disease severity, hospitalizations and death and the effect on other medical conditions. The book explores changes brought about during the pandemic to primary and specialty care, including the rapid employment of telemedicine and the many innovations in care delivery.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. COVID-19 Infection
- Chapter 2. Risk Factors
- Chapter 3. Impact on Healthcare Workers and Hospitals
- Chapter 4. Impact on Primary Care and Specialty Care
- Chapter 5. Telemedicine
- Chapter 6. COVID-19 Truths, Lies and Consequences
- Chapter 7. Persistent Medical Problems
- Chapter 8. The Way Forward
About the author
Don Goldenberg is Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Adjunct Faculty in the Departments of Medicine & Nursing at Oregon Health Sciences.
Summary
COVID's Impact on Health and Healthcare Workers highlights the most critical issues in COVID-19's impact on healthcare providers and on hospitals. This includes factors associated with disease severity, hospitalizations and death and the effect on other medical conditions. The book explores changes brought about during the pandemic to primary and specialty care, including the rapid employment of telemedicine and the many innovations in care delivery. Special attention is given to the role of myths and misinformation and its resultant adverse blow to the nation's recovery. COVID's long-range effects, both on previously infected patients and also on the general population, are reviewed. A number of recommendations to best move forward, including with vaccine allocation and preventing further devastation, are outlined.
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offers an overview of various degrees of disease severity, different scenarios involving hospitalization and death, and the effects of the virus on other medical conditions
