Open AccessKey words for 2020: Pandemic, emergency, anomie
Author(s) -
Liliana Lorettu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
emergency care journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2282-2054
pISSN - 1826-9826
DOI - 10.4081/ecj.2021.9436
Subject(s) - pandemic , medicine , covid-19 , anomie , key (lock) , public relations , medical emergency , criminology , outbreak , law , computer security , virology , political science , sociology , pathology , disease , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Dear Editor,
In 2020, global society was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has confronted everyone with an unusual, unknown situation, an unprecedented humanitarian emergency. The sudden outbreak has put health systems under enormous pressure and has caused major organisational problems, operational uncertainties and ethical conflicts. In particular, health workers had to deal with the emergency in both their personal and their working lives. While we wanted and had to treat our patients, we risked and feared getting infected too. (...)