COVID-19
COVID-19
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新冠肺炎
DOI:
10.1136/jisakos-2020-000472
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发表时间:
2021-11-22
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Van Dijk CN
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Van Dijk CN
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a dramatic impact on all of us, involving all our daily activities and our practices. As I write this editorial, elective orthopaedic and sports medicine care has virtually come to a standstill. Many conferences have been cancelled or postponed. I hope that all is well with you, your families and colleagues during these challenging and unprecedented times. I can appreciate how difficult it must be within your institutions and know that many of you are on the front lines supporting patients and fellow clinicians. I hope you all are safe as you adjust to the changes this pandemic has brought to your work and family life. We understand that reviewers may have longer hours and extra responsibilities, which must come before the Journal of ISAKOS. For that reason, we are even more grateful for your efforts and appreciate those who continue to complete their assignments. Likewise, we recognise that authors may need more time revising manuscripts and we will do our utmost to support you.It was Bill Gates who wrote in 2015:‘we must prepare for future epidemics, which may spread more effectively than Ebola. There is a significant chance that an epidemic of a substantially more infectious disease, will occur sometime in the next 20 years” 1 Global health experts have been warning for years that another pandemic whose speed and severity would rival those of the 1918 influenza epidemic was a matter not of if but of when. 2 Now, unfortunately, we are all faced with a worldwide crisis, and it seems that we are not prepared. When Dr Li Wenliang in Wuhan warned about a strange new virus, the authorities summoned him for questioning and he was silenced. On 31 January, he died from the new virus. This reminds me of the story of Dr Semmelweis. Semmelweis (1818–1865) was a physician from Budapest who came to work in the academic hospital in Vienna, with its two maternity wards. One ward was for midwives, and the other was for physicians and their medical students. At the time, about 25% of women who developed puerperal fever died. Semmelweis saw