COVID-19 transmission: a positive perspective
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Apurva Sakarde
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Roshan Takhelmayum
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Arvind S Kushwaha
Abstract
Objectives
To understand the dynamics of infectivity of COVID-19 and allay the fear and anxiety associated with it in healthcare workers and the society.
Case presentation
Three individuals accompanied their pediatric patients in the COVID ward but did not develop infection. Information about their knowledge and perspective about the disease and the protective measures undertaken by them during their stay in the hospital was gathered by administering a questionnaire 14 days after discharge.
Conclusions
It was observed that use of proper precautionary measures like wearing a mask and regular hand sanitization helped in prevention from COVID-19 infection even after having close contact with confirmed cases. Such facts/observation will help in sensitizing the public about COVID-19 and eliminate panic in the society.
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Research funding: None.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
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Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
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Ethical approval: Not applicable.
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- Frontmatter
- Letters to the Editor
- The solution to obesity and type 2 diabetes: reversing insulin resistance
- The second wave of COVID-19: effect on Indian health care system
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- Effect of two hypercaloric diets on the hormonal and metabolic profile of the adrenal gland
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- A fine tuning of embryo loading technique by eliminating the air bubble in the outer sheath of embryo catheter among women undergoing IVF treatment
- Effects of different doses of melatonin on rat adipose derived mesenchymal stem cells
- PTEN protein expression has role in predicting disease-free-interval in endometrioid endometrial carcinoma
- Amelioration of STZ-induced nephropathy in diabetic rats by saffron hydro alcoholic extract
- Elevated levels of neopterin and pentraxin 3 in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
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- COVID-19 transmission: a positive perspective
- Distant recurrence of endometrial cancer more than 10 years after hysterectomy: a case report
- Review Articles
- COVID-19 and lung pathologies
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