Covid's Impact on Health and Healthcare Workers

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.


Author: Don Goldenberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9780197575390
ISBN10: 0197575390
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine
- Medical | Clinical Medicine
- Medical | Infectious Diseases

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.