COVID-19 and the Risk to Health Care Workers: A Case Report

doi:10.7326/L20-0175

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. 2020 Jun 2;172(11):766-767.

doi: 10.7326/L20-0175. Epub 2020 Mar 16.

COVID-19 and the Risk to Health Care Workers: A Case Report

Kangqi Ng¹, Beng Hoong Poon¹, Troy Hai Kiat Puar¹, Jessica Li Shan Quah¹, Wann Jia Loh¹, Yu Jun Wong¹, Thean Yen Tan¹, Jagadesan Raghuram¹

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PMCID: PMC7081171
DOI: 10.7326/L20-0175

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COVID-19 and the Risk to Health Care Workers: A Case Report

Kangqi Ng et al. Ann Intern Med. 2020.

. 2020 Jun 2;172(11):766-767.

doi: 10.7326/L20-0175. Epub 2020 Mar 16.

Authors

Kangqi Ng¹, Beng Hoong Poon¹, Troy Hai Kiat Puar¹, Jessica Li Shan Quah¹, Wann Jia Loh¹, Yu Jun Wong¹, Thean Yen Tan¹, Jagadesan Raghuram¹

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¹ Changi General Hospital, Singapore (K.N., B.H.P., T.H.K., J.L.S., W.J.L., Y.J.W., T.Y.T., J.R.).

PMID: 32176257
PMCID: PMC7081171
DOI: 10.7326/L20-0175

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Keywords: COVID-19; Diabetes mellitus; Health care providers; Hyperlipidemia; Intubation; Noninvasive ventilation; Oxygen; Patients; Pneumonia; Ventilators.

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[1] Wang D, Hu B, Hu C, et al. Clinical characteristics of 138 hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia in Wuhan, China. JAMA. 2020. [PMID: 32031570] doi:10.1001/jama.2020.1585. - PMC - PubMed

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[9] Radonovich LJ Jr, Simberkoff MS, Bessesen MT, et al; ResPECT investigators. N95 respirators vs medical masks for preventing influenza among health care personnel: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2019;322:824-833. [PMID: 31479137] doi:10.1001/jama.2019.11645. - PMC - PubMed

[10] Radonovich LJ Jr, Simberkoff MS, Bessesen MT, et al; ResPECT investigators. N95 respirators vs medical masks for preventing influenza among health care personnel: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA. 2019;322:824-833. [PMID: 31479137] doi:10.1001/jama.2019.11645. - PMC - PubMed

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