{"id":5904,"date":"2020-04-14T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T21:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5904"},"modified":"2021-03-05T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:55:17","slug":"protecting-our-health-care-workers-while-protecting-our-communities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-comparison-of-approaches-and-early-outcomes-in-two-italian-regions-italy-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/14\/protecting-our-health-care-workers-while-protecting-our-communities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-comparison-of-approaches-and-early-outcomes-in-two-italian-regions-italy-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting our health care workers while protecting our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison of approaches and early outcomes in two Italian regions, Italy, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors determine that the community-based approach used in Veneto was associated with reduced cases, hospitalizations, deaths, and infection among HCWs when compared with the patient-centered approach used in Lombardy. Findings suggest that the impact of COVID-19 can be reduced through strong and aggressive public health efforts to confirm and isolate cases and to minimize unnecessary contact with HCWs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While the authors acknowledge that a community approach may be more challenging in the U.S. due to privatized health care, they propose Kaiser Permanente (KP) as a feasible setting, as KP serves a large population, integrates prevention and treatment, and has a tradition of community-based care.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Binkin et al. (April 14, 2020). Protecting our health care workers while protecting our communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison of approaches and early outcomes in two Italian regions, Italy, 2020. Pre-print downloaded Apr 14 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.10.20060707\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.10.20060707<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors determine that the community-based approach used in Veneto was associated with reduced cases, hospitalizations, deaths, and infection among HCWs when compared with the patient-centered approach used in Lombardy. Findings suggest that the impact of COVID-19 can be reduced through strong and aggressive public health efforts to confirm and isolate cases and to minimize&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/14\/protecting-our-health-care-workers-while-protecting-our-communities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-comparison-of-approaches-and-early-outcomes-in-two-italian-regions-italy-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}