Covid-19: Lancet piece warns of threat to doctors & paramedics

Of over 3,300 Covid-19 cases among health workers in China, 22 had died by the end of February, noted an editorial in the Lancet warning that unlike ventilators or wards, healthcare workers “cannot be urgently manufactured or run at 100% occupancy for long periods”. It called on governments to ensure the safety of healthcare workers as “health care workers are every country’s most valuable resources” in the current crisis.