COVID's Impact on Health and Healthcare Workers

COVIDs Impact on Health and Healthcare Workers highlights the most critical issues in COVID-19s impact on healthcare providers and on hospitals. This includes factors associated with disease severity, hospitalizations and death and the effect on other medical conditions. The book explores changes brought about during the pandemic to primary and specialty care, including the rapid employment of telemedicine and the many innovations in care delivery. Special attention isgiven to the role of myths and misinformation and its resultant adverse blow to the nations recovery. COVIDs long-range effects, both on previously infected patients and also on the general population, are reviewed. A number of recommendations to best move forward, including with vaccine allocation andpreventing further devastation, are outlined.