“The Art of War” in the Era of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Maxwell, Daniel; Perl, Trish M.; Cutrell, James B

doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa229

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“…The HCWs in this study, like other medical professionals caring for COVID-19 patients [ 40 ], have found themselves in a battle on two fronts: as hospital-based professionals fighting for their patients’ lives, giving rise to their perspective of themselves as combatants fighting on the frontline of a war, and as family members fighting to protect their families from exposure to the virus and paying the price for fighting the “new war.” As mentioned in the Introduction and Results sections, the image of war has become a common motif in discussions about the COVID-19 pandemic. Medical experts have even suggested that military strategies to be applied to outbreak management and have highlighted the importance of prioritizing healthcare staff capacity, as is done in military scenarios [ 18 ]. By documenting knowledge about HCWs, we thus contribute to a scholarly assessment and understanding of various elements of the new war—that against COVID-19.…”

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“…The unfolding pandemic has been compared to war, as described in “‘The Art of War’ in the Era of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)” by Maxwell et al [ 18 ], who claim that the image of war is often used in the field of infectious diseases. Indeed, from the beginning of the pandemic, HCWs in the hospital setting have been faced with caring for patients with an incredibly contagious and life-threatening disease about which nothing was known and for which there was no known lifesaving treatment—a situation similar to a war.…”

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Listening to Hospital Personnel’s Narratives during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Daphna–Tekoah

Brikman

Scheier

et al. 2020

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Healthcare workers (HCWs) facing the COVID-19 pandemic are required to deal with unexpectedly traumatic situations, concern about contamination, and mounting patient deaths. As a means to address the changing needs of our hospital’s HCWs, we conducted a narrative analysis study in the early stages of the covid-19 outbreak. A focus group of medical experts, conducted as the initial step, recommended that a bottom-up research tool be used for exploring HCWs’ traumatic experiences and needs. We therefore conducted 450 semi-structured in-depth interviews with hospital personnel. The interviews were based on Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs model, and the narratives were analyzed by applying the Listening Guide methodology. The interviewees expressed a need for physical and psychological security in the battle against Covid-19, in addition to the need for attachment and meaning. Importantly, we also found that the interview itself may serve as a therapeutic tool. In light of our findings, we recommended changes in hospital practices, which were subsequently implemented. Further research on HCWs’ traumatic experiences and needs will provide evidence-based knowledge and may enable novel approaches in the battle against Covid-19. To conclude, the knowledge generated by listening to HCWs’ narratives may provide suitable support programs for professionals.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Listening to Hospital Personnel’s Narratives during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Daphna–Tekoah

Brikman

Scheier

et al. 2020

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“…The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) since Dec 2019 [15], known as COVID-2019 or 2019-nCoV, has led to a major concern of the potential for not only an epidemic but a pandemic in Chia and now it seems to be a public health problem all over the world [4,16]. Sequencing showed that COVID-19 was a new kind of β-coronavirus, which was similar to SARS-CoV [17].…”

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A Meta-analysis of Clinical Characteristics and Mortality COVID-19 Pneumonia

Jiang

Lou

et al. 2020

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Objective To investigate the Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19) clinical characteristics and mortality risk by pooling the open published data.Methods Studies relevant to COVID-19 published in Pubmed, China Wanfang database, ChinaXiv and medRxiv were systematic screened by using the text word of “COVID-19”, 2019-nCoV, “SARS-CoV-2”, “NCP”. The mortality and clinical characteristic of the COVID-19 cases such as male/female ratio, mechanical ventilation ratio and top clinical symptom rate of the COVID-19 cases were pooled.ResultsTen clinical studies relevant to COVID-19 were identified by electronic searching the related databases. The combined mortality was 0.03(95%CI: 0.01-0.04) for COVID-19 cases by random effect model. The pooled female ratio of the COVID-19 cases from 10 published data was 0.41(95%CI:0.37-0.46). The pooled invasive and non-invasive ventilation ratio were 0.03(95%CI:0.01-0.05) and 0.06(95%CI:0.02-0.09) respectively for patients with COVID-19 pneumonia. The pooled clinical symptom rate of fever, cough, headache and fatigue were 0.80(95%CI:0.60-1.01), 0.12(95%CI:0.08-0.17), 0.68(95%CI:0.57-0.73) and 0.51(95%CI:0.36-0.67) respectively under random effect model.Conclusion According to the present published data, male was more cline to susceptible to COVID-19 compared to female. The fever, cough and fatigue were the most common symptom of COVID-19 cases. About 10% of patients received invasive or noninvasive mechanical ventilation with the overall crude mortality of 3%.

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“…With an impressive number, popular articles on COVID-19 are widely published on daily classic media relating the disease spread, the worrying issues and also helping to cope with the cultural customs and to urge for people isolation to limit the disease propagation. This invisible virus is considered as the most dangerous enemy for the humanity and the metaphor of war against it, was adopted by certain scientists who advice some military strategies to combat this disease [8].…”

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“…People can reach psychosis symptoms because of the contagion and countries may suffer from economic crisis due to people traveling restriction and social isolation. In [8], the authors give several battle hints to fight the virus as it travels the world, the metaphor of war is used. Doctors and people the most affected psychologically by the epidemics are the most likely to talk about it on social networks like Twitter, which have become essential in our daily lives.…”

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Mining Twitter Data on COVID-19 for Sentiment analysis and frequent patterns Discovery

Drias

2020

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A study with a societal objective was carried out on people exchanging on social networks and more particularly on Twitter to observe their feelings on the COVID-19. A dataset of more than 600,000 tweets with hashtags like #COVID and #coronavirus posted between February 27, 2020 and March 25, 2020 was built. An exploratory treatment of the number of tweets posted by country, by language and other parameters revealed an overview of the apprehension of the pandemic around the world. A sentiment analysis was elaborated on the basis of the tweets posted in English because these constitute the great majority (USA, GB, India…). On the other hand, the FP-Growth algorithm was adapted to the tweets in order to discover the most frequent patterns and its derived association rules, in order to highlight the tweeters insights relatively to COVID-19.

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“The Art of War” in the Era of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Cited by 37 publications

References 5 publications

Listening to Hospital Personnel’s Narratives during the COVID-19 Outbreak

Listening to Hospital Personnel’s Narratives during the COVID-19 Outbreak

A Meta-analysis of Clinical Characteristics and Mortality COVID-19 Pneumonia

Mining Twitter Data on COVID-19 for Sentiment analysis and frequent patterns Discovery

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