Diamond, the New Form That COVID‑19 Chose for Nurses!

Mohammad-Rafi Bazrafshan, Hakime Akbari, Masoud Mohammadi

Abstract


Dear Editor, COVID‑19, a deadly disease that started in December 2019 following a severe epidemic of severe respiratory disease in Wuhan, China,[1] and nearly two years later, on November 8, 2021, it swept across the world and infected more than 249 million people and caused more than 5 million deaths.[2] From the beginning of the disease in the world, the role of nurses in different parts of hospitals and helping to provide treatment for them has been very important, and nurses have been at the forefront of the fight against this pandemic.

Keywords


COVID‑19; health care workers; International Council of Nurses; Nurses

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