Delayed Primary and Specialty Care: The Coronavirus Disease–2019 Pandemic Second Wave. (7th June 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Weinstein, Eric; Ragazzoni, Luca; Burkle, Frederick; Allen, Mea; Hogan, David; Della Corte, Francesco
• Is Part Of: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness. Volume 14:Number 3(2020)
• Page Start: e19
• Page End: e21
• Publication Date: 2020-06-07
• Subjects: COVID-19, -- disaster recovery, -- incident command system, -- primary care, -- surge capacity; Disaster medicine -- Periodicals; Emergency management -- Planning -- Periodicals; Public health -- Periodicals; 363.34
• DOI: 10.1017/dmp.2020.148
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1935-7893

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Time is of the essence to continue the pandemic disaster cycle with a comprehensive post-COVID-19 health care delivery system RECOVERY analysis, plan and operation at the local, regional and state level.The second wave of COVID-19 pandemic response are not the ripples of acute COVID-19 patient clusters that will persist until a vaccine strategy is designed and implemented to effect herd immunity. The COVID-19 second wave are the patients that have had their primary and specialty care delayed. This exponential wave of patients requires prompt health care delivery system planning and response.