Talk:2002–2004 SARS outbreak among healthcare workers

Hello sunshine!

Hello !!! i am corn Dedoton4 (talk) 17:50, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

Looks like you got a ways to go to get ready for your first draftRJBazell (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:25, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

Article is well done. Maybe want to add a small paragraph of list about signs/symptoms instead of making people go to another link -- nothing too long just a short list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alextm21 (talk • contribs) 17:33, 9 November 2017 (UTC)

Hello arayofsunshine!! Your article was very thorough in discussing all the different methods of transmission, and the whole article was very factual and had an appropriate encyclopedic tone. I think you could elaborate more on the "Prevention for the Future" section, though, by giving some examples of the new regulations/guideline and analyzing how they reflected the lessons learned from this outbreak. Eqw55 (talk) 04:21, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

Thank you everyone for the feedback! I really appreciate it and hope that you find improvements in my final article based on your suggestions! ~Arayofsunshine12 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arayofsunshine12 (talk • contribs) 06:08, 12 December 2017 (UTC) Hi everyone! This article is meant to be a daughter article for the main SARS Wikipedia article that already exists. Thanks! Arayofsunshine12 (talk) 01:55, 15 December 2017 (UTC)Arayofsunshine12

Toronto in retrospect
I felt that balance was a bit harsh on Toronto, and I had a good source at hand, so I stubbed this section in:

Retrospect

In retrospect, according to infectious disease specialist Allison McGeer of the Sinai Health System, Ontario officials "clearly did enough right to control the outbreak". Emergency measures included:
 * premier Ernie Eves declared SARS a provincial emergency
 * overnight, all hospitals required to create units to care for SARS patients
 * Ontario activated its multi-ministry provincial operations centre for emergency response
 * all hospitals in the Greater Toronto Area and Simcoe County instructed to activate "Code Orange" emergency plans, which entailed suspending all non-essential services
 * visitor limitations imposed
 * isolation unit created for possible SARS patients
 * protective clothing mandates implemented for exposed staff
 * four days later, officials access restrictions were extended to all hospitals in Ontario

As further determined in retrospect, some measures taken at the time were more extreme than necessary:
 * imposition of quarantine on the presymptomatic exposed was excessive because "SARS is among the unusual infections that was not infectious before people got sick", although this was not certain knowledge at the time
 * extent of hospital closures and disruption to general care greater than necessary because of poor data collection on likely patterns of spread among hospitals

Broadly, the right measures were taken within the system, but insufficient training of HCWs lead to an implementation shortfall.

This assessment was from early 2020, and interesting in light of Covid, which probably draws not a few readers here to see how we escaped the dragon twenty years ago. &mdash; MaxEnt 20:47, 3 January 2022 (UTC)