Characteristics of health worker fatality in China during the outbreak of COVID-19 infection

Since December, 2019, an outbreak of a novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) occurred in Wuhan (Hubei, China) 1. Recent paper in this journal also described the clinical and computed tomographic imaging features of novel coronavirus pneumonia caused by COVID-19 2. During nearly two months of fighting against the epidemic, health workers were under great physiological and psychological pressure in China3. For example, due to wearing protective clothing, many health workers avoided drinking water and wore adult diapers for a long time, so that some of them fainted under hypoxia and hypoglycaemia4.
Source: Journal of Infection - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research