Deaths from COVID-19 in healthcare workers in Italy—What can we learn?

Journal article

This letter examines healthcare worker deaths by category and medical speciality during the COVID-19 emergency in Italy, and underlines factors that may have contributed to the elevated number of fatalities among healthcare personnel. These data are now available because Italy was the first western country to be severely affected. These are matters for urgent discussion as development goes forward

Authors: Lapolla, P; Mingoli, A; Lee, R

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Journal: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 364-365
• Publication date: 2020-05-15
• DOI: 10.1017/ice.2020.241
• EISSN: 1559-6834
• ISSN: 0899-823X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Infectious disease (medical specialty); Health care; Medical emergency; Political science; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); Virology; Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak; Action (physics); Content (measure theory); Mathematics; Medicine; Computer science; World Wide Web