Lessons learned from coronavirus pandemic

ABSTRACT

Since the day I started to write this article, there have been so many new developments in the world and in our country, even in the last 4 days, evaluating new information, reading what is written, making sense of interpretations, causes ones thoughts to jump from one point to another. I realized that it is not possible to prepare a systematic article that covers the subject completely. I started by making a list of messages and observations in my mind and sharing them with you. The pandemic experience was not the first in our working life, but the closest was the H1N1 pandemic in the 2009-2010 season. In our country, a total of 13,591 cases and 656 deaths due to pandemic influenza virus were confirmed. Hospitalization rate was 1.4%;the rate of hospitalization to intensive care unit was 13.6% and the mortality rate in intensive care patients was 19.6%.