1. How should health systems prepare for the evolving COVID-19 pandemic? Reflections from the perspective of a Tertiary Cancer Center
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Andre Tsin Chih Chen, Camila Motta Venchiarutti Moniz, Ulysses Ribeiro-Júnior, Maria Del Pilar Estevez Diz, João Victor Salvajoli, Karina Gondim Moutinho Da Conceição Vasconcelos, José Otávio Costa Auler-Júnior, Ivan Cecconello, Edson Abdala, and Paulo Marcelo Gehm Hoff
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Medicine (General) ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,viruses ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Health Personnel ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Disaster Planning ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Cancer Care Facilities ,medicine.disease_cause ,Consent Forms ,Tertiary Care Centers ,03 medical and health sciences ,R5-920 ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pandemic ,Medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,China ,Pandemics ,Coronavirus ,business.industry ,Public health ,COVID-19 ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Pneumonia ,Editorial ,Family medicine ,business ,Coronavirus Infections ,Brazil ,Healthcare system - Abstract
In early December 2019, a pneumonia of unknown origin was first diagnosed in Wuhan, China (). The pathogen was identified as a novel coronavirus and was subsequently named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (). On January 30th, 2020, The World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a public health emergency of international concern (). As of March 18th, 2020, there were 212,616 laboratory-confirmed cases worldwide (). Governments have responded in various ways to this evolving public [...]
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- 2020