Physicians´ perspectives: Impacts of PPE shortages, COVID-19 on Lifespan
(World News Science)

Courtesy of Brown University With the global development of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rhode Island Lifespan Health System and its partners have been working with different sectors of the government, including the Rhode Island Department of Health, to prepare for and address the challenges posed by the pandemic locally. `I can´t remember the last time the state of Rhode Island declared a state of emergency,` said Philip Chan, associate professor in the University´s Department of Medicine and an attending physician within the Lifespan system. Rhode Island has been preparing for COVID-19 since late December to early January - long before the state´s first confirmed case in early March,...