Barranco Rosario, Ventura Francesco
Department of Legal and Forensic Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
Med Leg J. 2020 Jul;88(2):65-66. doi: 10.1177/0025817220923694. Epub 2020 May 22.
The 2019 coronavirus infection (called SARS-CoV-2) began in Wuhan, spread rapidly throughout the world. In many countries the exponential growth of Covid-19 cases is overwhelming health care systems with overcrowding of hospitals and overflowing Intensive Care Units. While people must stay at home to reduce the spread of this virus health-care workers do the exact opposite. In some countries doctors are working with insufficient protection and are constantly at risk of contracting Covid-19. Health-care workers should be constantly monitored because if they are infected they may spread the virus to colleagues, hospitalized patients and even family members. Increased rates of infection in health-care workers could cause the health-care system to collapse and a further worsening of the pandemic; if there are too few doctors it will be even more difficult to manage.
2019冠状病毒感染（称为SARS-CoV-2）始于武汉，迅速蔓延至全球。在许多国家，新冠病毒病例呈指数级增长，使医疗系统不堪重负，医院人满为患，重症监护病房爆满。虽然人们必须待在家里以减少这种病毒的传播，但医护人员却恰恰相反。在一些国家，医生工作时防护不足，时刻有感染新冠病毒的风险。医护人员应持续接受监测，因为一旦他们被感染，可能会将病毒传播给同事、住院患者甚至家庭成员。医护人员感染率上升可能导致医疗系统崩溃，使疫情进一步恶化；如果医生数量过少，管理将更加困难。
