Keeping the Coronavirus from Infecting Health-Care Workers
Improving the Patient Experience, COVID-19
Keeping the Coronavirus from Infecting Health-Care Workers
March 26, 2020
Keeping COVID-19 from Infecting Health-Care Workers
The message is getting out: #StayHome. In this early phase of the coronavirus pandemic, with undetected cases accelerating transmission even as testing ramps up, that is critical. But there are many people whom the country needs to keep going into work—grocery cashiers, first responders, factory workers for critical businesses. Most obviously, we need health-care workers to care for the sick, even though their jobs carry the greatest risk of exposure. How do we keep them seeing patients rather than becoming patients?
The full New Yorker article can be viewed at this link.