Patient-zero drill put health facilities to the test—40% of them failed
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纽约卫生官员开展区域性演练，模拟医疗机构识别和应对可能引发大流行的不明感染患者。结果显示整体响应缓慢，个人防护装备使用不规范，仅60%的机构通过基本测试，即40%未通过。研究指出，需加强医护人员培训，以实现对潜在发热传染患者的更早识别、戴口罩和隔离。该研究发表于《发病率和死亡率周报》。
COVID-19 made the weaknesses in our pandemic preparedness at national and global levels painfully clear. But a new study highlights that even at the first, local steps of an outbreak with pandemic-potential, we are worryingly underprepared.
Health officials in New York set up a regional test of healthcare facilities to identify and respond to a patient with a mystery infection that could pose a pandemic-level threat. But things didn't go well. Overall, responses were slow, appropriate use of personal protective equipment was spotty, and only 60 percent of facilities passed the basics of the test—an overall failing grade.
"These drills identified needs for health care workers and health care facility staff member training to achieve earlier identification, masking, and isolation of potentially infectious febrile patients," the officials wrote in the study, which was published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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