Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
Associate Dean for Research, Professor, and Lee Hysan Chair of Oral Epidemiology, Department of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Affiliate Member, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF.
Compend Contin Educ Dent. 2021 Jun;42(6):280-289.
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as the first coronavirus-initiated pandemic. COVID-19's fast-paced global spread with a broad range of clinical manifestations compelled health regulatory organizations, public health professionals, and researchers to update their information about the disease and provide individual- and community-based guidelines, solutions, and regulations to break the disease cycle, mitigate person-to-person transmission, and reduce cross-contamination in healthcare settings. In this review, the authors provide known facts and updated information about SARS-CoV-2 virology and its new variants, transmission routes, reported clinical symptoms, epidemiology, and infection control and prevention guidelines with a focus on a hierarchy of controls in dental settings.
2020 年 3 月,世界卫生组织宣布 COVID-19 为首次由冠状病毒引发的大流行。COVID-19 在全球范围内迅速传播,临床表现广泛,促使卫生监管机构、公共卫生专业人员和研究人员更新他们对该疾病的信息,并提供基于个人和社区的指南、解决方案和法规,以打破疾病循环,减轻人际传播,并减少医疗机构中的交叉污染。在这篇综述中,作者提供了有关 SARS-CoV-2 病毒学及其新变种、传播途径、报告的临床症状、流行病学以及感染控制和预防指南的已知事实和最新信息,重点是牙科环境中的控制层次。