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Journal of Medical & Clinical Nursing

“COVID-19 - POSTCOVID SYNDROME” Pandemic: How to Protect Doctors and Nurses in the “Red Zone” of the Hospital?

Author(s): Krashenyuk AI

WHO Director-General Tedros Adan Ghebreyesus announced on May 21, 2021, at the 74th World Health Assembly, that at least 115,000 health workers had died during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Analysis of literary sources showed that significant losses are borne by the doctors of the ?Red Zones? of hospitals: doctors, nurses, as well as doctors, paramedics, ambulance drivers. The most likely cause of such losses is considered by health experts from different countries: an increased load on staff, which leads to early ?Professional burnout? and ?Emotional fatigue?, a higher probability of infection with the virus. This does not take into account other, probable causes, for example, distant interactions or the ?Kaznacheev effect?.

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