id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-285711-2utcn0hw Elliott, Robert COVID-19 Related Mortality During Management of a Hepatic Abscess 2020-09-22 .txt text/plain 2071 102 48 Declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11th, 2020, COVID-19 has challenged healthcare systems to limit the spread of community and hospital-acquired of disease. In the setting of an ongoing pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), healthcare systems have been challenged to limit in-hospital transmission of the virus; a task noted to be incredibly difficult given the suggestion of what appears to be fairly high viral transmissibility (3, 4) . We presented a case of a patient death from SARS-CoV-2 infection prior to the implementation of universal masking. In addition, now having lived this experience with universal masking, we question: (1) if there might be a survival advantage to short-interval masking during the height of seasonal influenza activity and (2) if there may be a benefit to expanded use of N95 respirators in the IR suite during AGP-type interventions performed on individuals presenting with respiratory infections not limited to Covid-19. ./cache/cord-285711-2utcn0hw.txt ./txt/cord-285711-2utcn0hw.txt