The Covid19 Pandemic and the Emergent Need for Quarantine Medicine.
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covid19, pandemic, disaster, disaster medicine, covid
Abstract
The scale of the Covid19 pandemic has changed the landscape of healthcare services around the world. Quarantine is one of many non- pharmaceutical interventions historically used in managing pandemics but there is currently no global medical consensus on the best format, with most countries employing a continuously reviewed system to determine needs.
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Derrick Tin, Harvard Medical School
Senior Fellow, Disaster and Counter Terrorism Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School
Alexander Hart, Harvard Medical School
Director of Research, BIDMC Disaster Medicine Fellowship
Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Instructor, Harvard Medical School