Chinese translations of media reports by FluTracker’s members indicated that an emergency room doctor has died from an COVID-19 infection.(link) If this is confirmed by the World Health Organization it would only be the second confirmed health care worker (HCW) infected with COVID-19. The last HCW infected by COVID-19 was reported in April 2019.(link) Public health officials are always concerned about reports of health care workersinfected by novel infectious diseases because it is generally a sign of human-to-human transmission.
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Click to enlarge. Confirmed CORONA-CoV cases (green) and deaths (red) each week. Case numbers are listed on the y-axis (side), days of each ... -
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