Supplies needed for coronavirus healthcare workers: 89 million masks, 30 million gowns, 2.9 million litres of hand sanitiser. A month.
- Written by Katherine Gibney, NHMRC early career fellow, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
In three short months, more than half a million cases of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, have been reported worldwide.
The US now has the highest number of COVID-19 cases worldwide and Italy has reported more than twice as many COVID-19 related deaths as China. Deaths from COVID-19 in Spain have surpassed China in recent days, and it won’t...