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Aerosol-generating procedures and infective risk to healthcare workers from SARS-CoV-2: the limits of the evidence

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Since first being reported in December 2019, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly spread worldwide. The resulting coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. SARS-CoV-2 is considered to primarily be spread by droplet transmission and direct contact. Given the behaviour […]

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Clinical Care for Severe Acute Respiratory Infection

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This toolkit is intended for clinicians working in intensive care units in low- and middle-income countries, managing adult and paediatric patients with severe forms of acute respiratory infection, including severe pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sepsis and septic shock. Its main objective is to provide some of the necessary tools that can be used to

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From SARS and MERS to COVID-19: a brief summary and comparison of severe acute respiratory infections.

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Within two decades, there have emerged three highly pathogenic and deadly human coronaviruses, namely SARS- CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2. The economic burden and health threats caused by these coronaviruses are extremely dreadful and getting more serious as the increasing number of global infections and attributed deaths of SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV. Unfortunately, specific medical countermeasures for

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