The COVID-19 pandemic continues to move at record speed. Health systems and hospitals worldwide face unprecedented challenges to effectively prepare and respond to this extraordinary health crisis and anticipated surge. Hospitals should confront these unparalleled challenges with a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, coo …
The World Health Organization (WHO) was first notified of a rapidly evolving outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Guinea on 23 March 2014. On 8 August 2014, the WHO declared the Ebola epidemic a “public health emergency of international concern”. A two-year-old child who died (6 August 2013) in southern Guinea was …
Since its emergence in September 2012 and as of 30 April 2014, there have been 424 cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) reported to public health authorities worldwide (15 countries). This tally includes 95 healthcare workers (22%) and 131 deaths (mortality rate of 31%). To date, only tw …