Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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Variations in Personal Protective Equipment Preparedness in Intensive Care Units during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey of Asia-Pacific Countries
Published 2020Objectives: To evaluate PPE-preparedness across intensive care units (ICUs) in 6 Asia-Pacific countries. PPE-preparedness was defined as the adherence to guidelines, training HCWs, procuring PPE stocks and responding ...Preprint -
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders
Published 2020Human coronaviruses have classically caused mild respiratory infections. Two previous outbreaks caused by newly identified coronaviruses, SARS-CoV in 2002 and MERS-CoV in 2012, caused serious respiratory disease with ...Article -
Pathways to COVID-19 ‘community protection’
Published 2020To date, no country has reached a natural COVID-19 epidemic peak and observed peaks essentially reflect the effectiveness of ‘lockdown’ measures. The major challenge is finding a responsible way out of ‘lockdown’, given ...Article -
Keeping our eyecare providers and patients safe during the COVID-19 pandemic
Published 2020The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the defining event of this generation. To date, there are over 2 million cases including more ...Article -
Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 Outbreak: the Need for Epidemic Preparedness
Published 2020COVID-19 is not only a global pandemic and public health crisis; it has also severely affected the global economy and financial markets. Significant reductions in income, a rise in unemployment, and disruptions in the ...Article