Acknowledgement of corona virus
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Most information in this situation assessment comes from reports filed by WHO staff working in the affected countries, or personally communicated to the writer. The heads of WHO country offices in affected and neighbouring countries, who report daily to WHO’s Geneva offices, also contributed with their personal assessments of the outbreaks’ evolution and the most critical data and dates. WHO also acknowledges the work of a small worldwide team responsible for the daily tracking and investigation of dozens of rumoured cases and alerts.
An especially strong appreciation goes to the hundreds of doctors, nurses, epidemiologists, laboratory experts, emergency and event managers, logisticians, medical anthropologists, anthropologists, communicators, and psychologists who have been deployed to serve in the field under the WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) umbrella.
Explanation:
Most information in this situation assessment comes from reports filed by WHO staff working in the affected countries, or personally communicated to the writer. The heads of WHO country offices in affected and neighbouring countries, who report daily to WHO’s Geneva offices, also contributed with their personal assessments of the outbreaks’ evolution and the most critical data and dates. WHO also acknowledges the work of a small worldwide team responsible for the daily tracking and investigation of dozens of rumoured cases and alerts.
An especially strong appreciation goes to the hundreds of doctors, nurses, epidemiologists, laboratory experts, emergency and event managers, logisticians, medical anthropologists, anthropologists, communicators, and psychologists who have been deployed to serve in the field under the WHO Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) umbrella.
Together with national staff and partners, they have worked in Ebola-affected countries under some very challenging conditions, often in situations of great personal danger. Many have been released from their regular jobs, at a large number of institutional partners, on very short notice, and have stayed in the country for weeks or months on end.
Two doctors deployed by WHO were among the many medical staff who contracted Ebola virus disease while doing their jobs.
In addition to first-hand information, the writer of this Situation Assessment read and learned much from the following key papers and stories: