Making history: Protecting vulnerable healthcare workers during COVID-19

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Making history: Protecting vulnerable healthcare workers during COVID-19

David McBride

David McBride

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Deployment of healthcare staff is based on vulnerability [Image: Griffin Wooldridge on Unsplash]

Occupational health expert David McBride describes a risk assessment framework for identifying and protecting staff potentially vulnerable to COVID-19, which has been developed during an under-resourced era in occupational medicine

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