COVID-19 Screening Center: How to Balance between the Speed and Safety?
Jacob Lee
Abstract
When the H1N1 pandemic occurred in 2009, screening centers were set up in Korea as local hospitals organized temporary container offices outside the hospital buildings to screen for suspected influenza patients During the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome corona virus (MERS-CoV) outbreak in hospitals in 2015, the government designated a specific hospital to diagnose and preempt quarantine patients with suspected MERS and pneumonia symptoms as a MERS-safety hospital This MERS-safety hospital also operated a screening center
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Middle East respiratory syndromeMedicineQuarantineOutbreakCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)PneumoniaMedical emergencyEmergency medicineSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Pandemic2019-20 coronavirus outbreakMiddle East respiratory syndrome coronavirusVirologyInternal medicineDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)PathologyDisaster Response and ManagementHealthcare Systems and ReformsHealth Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention