id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-272653-01wck9f3 Isaacs, David Apocalypse perhaps 2020-08-24 .txt text/plain 1894 133 59 The exact starting date of the novel coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 will never be known, but China informed the World Health Organization (WHO) about the disease on New Year's Eve, 31 December 2019. Transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was accelerated by traditional travel of 3 billion people for 40 days before the Chinese New Year on 25 January 2020. 2,3 When the Australian Chief Medical Officer activated the pandemic emergency response plan, weeks before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic, the Government was legally obliged to act. 12 The authors conclude that staff were being infected through community transmission and that PPE was effective in protecting front-line health-care workers. At a time when world leaders want to blame each other for aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war metaphor is particularly menacing. Managing mental health challenges faced by healthcare workers during covid=19 pandemic ./cache/cord-272653-01wck9f3.txt ./txt/cord-272653-01wck9f3.txt