id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-011808-ev7qv94b Sfeir, Maroun M Frontline workers sound the alarm: be always sure you’re right, then go ahead 2020-06-16 .txt text/plain 1398 91 60 Amid personal protective equipment shortage, clinicians, nurses, and other frontline workers across the world have faced threatening and/or firing for self-protection during this coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. On 30 December 2019, Dr Wenliang Li, a Chinese ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, was the first medical professional who raised a concern in an online chatroom alarming the healthcare personnel of an outbreak related to a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like infection in seven inpatients admitted with severe respiratory tract infections after they visited the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China. 2 For instance, early during the pandemic and before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended wearing face coverings in public settings on 3 April 2020, many clinicians and nurses in the USA confessed that they faced intimidation, threatening or termination for wearing self-supplied masks in the hospitals. ./cache/cord-011808-ev7qv94b.txt ./txt/cord-011808-ev7qv94b.txt