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Hi I'd like to help! I'm new to editing Wikipedia, would love some guidance.
DazzleNovak (
talk) 18:53, 2 April 2020 (UTC)reply
DazzleNovak, Daniele Pugliesi, hi there ! happy to see some new editors. As said earlier I do my best but the flow of daily emerging sources is important. Few points I can notes:
As of now, the hot spot is the
COVID-19 related shortages article. I read 200 sources, integrated 60+, but there are 30 good quality sources
Talk:Shortages_related_to_the_2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic#Sources. I grouped sources per topic. I you can attack one topic, read the sources, and integrate them in the article, it would be great. I would suggest to attack the Health Care Worker (HCW) group first, because this is a raising and under documented issue now : half HCW are sick on the 3rd week, hospitals hare therefore human resources depleted, etc. You may also look for "COVID + fired" or "COVID + PTSD", "COVID + health care workers + sick" I guess.
We need a place which define the classic medical PPE for
ICU staffs. Their gear + virus protection is the one all nurses and doctors now need. If you are ready to do some online research on this matter, you could start by creating a "ICU and hospitals PPE" section within
Personal protective equipment, to document their classic PPE set and best practices. Be bold.
Thank you, @
Yug:. I am an active user on it.wikipedia from years, but have not that much experience on editing in en.wikipedia, so probably I will need some help to understand some guidelines. Most important, I have knowledge of European Directives, where medical devices are not classified as PPE by law (they are considered two distinct categories of products, although a lot of consumers and companies look are not aware of this distinction), hence it will be useful to collaborate with someone that has knowledge of laws in U.S., Asia or other parts of the world. I would avoid to write in an EuropeanCommunity-centric point of view... --
Daniele Pugliesi (
talk) 12:52, 4 April 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Daniele Pugliesi: go ahead and write what you have, use European sources it's all good. Just state it, as usual. It will hopefully encourage others to write about USA and Asian guidelines. You may also look at the current news flow. There is a lot of non-conventional equipements entering in the ICUs these days. But this will rather go into
COVID-19 related shortages.
Yug(talk) 14:14, 4 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Hi! Can I join here? I don't know how to edit!
Ano~t@○~m○(talk) 6:32 1 November 2023 (UTC)
Plural form and page title
The following discussion is closed and will soon be archived:--
Yug(talk) 17:15, 6 April 2020 (UTC) reply
For what I know, "equipment" is the plural form, so the correct page title is "Equipment Task Force" instead of "Equipments Task Force". --
Daniele Pugliesi (
talk) 20:54, 4 April 2020 (UTC)reply
I'am not sure, I'am French. If you have some certainty, go ahead with the move.
Yug(talk) 23:00, 4 April 2020 (UTC)reply
I am Italian and do not know if the term "Equipments" can be accepted in British English, however it is considered an error in my U.S. English browser dictionary. --
Daniele Pugliesi (
talk) 16:11, 5 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Other personal protective equipment?
@
Yug:@
MartinezMD:
I added "respirator" to the list. I think we could add more other personal protective equipment, e.g. PPE used by medical staff in hospitals to avoid contagious, and maybe also some
collective protective equipment (CPE). On the other side, probably few of them are accepted globally as effective against COVID-19. Do you have any idea or suggestion at this regard? Which PPE or CPE do you think we can add to the list? --
Daniele Pugliesi (
talk) 21:00, 4 April 2020 (UTC)reply
Among Chinese health workers, fatality was lower than among the general population in that country (Table 1). However, with regard to incidence, the Italian Group for Evidence-based Medicine reported that 8.3% of total COVID-19 cases recorded in Italy occurred among health workers, this being double that reported in China (3.8%).12 Lack of personal and collective protective equipment in health services, in addition to the large volume of cases, has contributed to this situation."[4]
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Anotaomo (
talk) 10:59, 1 November 2023 (UTC)reply