Facing Covid-19 in Italy — Ethics, Logistics, and Therapeutics on the Epidemic’s Front Line

New England Journal of Medicine

Lisa Rosenbaum, M.D.

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The infection is everywhere in the hospital,” Dr. D. told me. “Although you wear protective gear and do the best you can, you cannot control it.” The challenge, he suggested, had less to do with caring for patients with Covid-19–related critical illness, in whose rooms clinicians are shielded in protective gear, than with caregivers’ many other daily activities: touching computers, riding elevators, seeing outpatients, eating lunch.”

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https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2005492?cid=DM88769_JW_COVID-19_Newsletter&bid=170761353