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COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Testing/trends , COVID-19/diagnosis , COVID-19/epidemiology , Elective Surgical Procedures/trends , Mandatory Testing/trends , Preoperative Care/trends , COVID-19 Nucleic Acid Testing/standards , Child , Elective Surgical Procedures/standards , Female , France/epidemiology , Humans , Male , Mandatory Testing/standards , Preoperative Care/standardsABSTRACT
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is spreading rapidly around the world with devastating consequences on patients, health care workers, health systems, and economies. As it reaches low- and middle-income countries, its effects could be even more dire, because it will be difficult for them to respond aggressively to the pandemic. There is a great shortage of all health care providers, who will be at risk due to a lack of personal protection equipment. Social distancing will be almost impossible. The necessary resources to treat patients will be in short supply. The end result could be a catastrophic loss of life. A global effort will be required to support faltering economies and health care systems.
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Coronavirus Infections/economics , Developing Countries , Pandemics/economics , Pneumonia, Viral/economics , Poverty , COVID-19 , Coronavirus Infections/therapy , Humans , International Cooperation , Patient Care Management/economics , Patient Care Management/organization & administration , Personal Protective Equipment , Pneumonia, Viral/therapySubject(s)
Coronavirus Infections , Developing Countries , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral , Betacoronavirus , COVID-19 , Humans , SARS-CoV-2Subject(s)
Betacoronavirus , Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis , Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis , Asymptomatic Infections/epidemiology , COVID-19 , Child , Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Humans , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Publication Bias , Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
Thank you for the opportunity to respond to the letter by Dr Subedi wherein he has raised some very important points about managing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic when working in a low-resource environment.