id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-269593-ipxwf4pv Aisenberg, Gabriel M. A message from the trench: A day in the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020-05-19 .txt text/plain 245 24 69 title: A message from the trench: A day in the hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic The medical students are home: they are considered non-essentials, and the Dean decides that "School's Out for summer", as Alice Cooper would say. Longing for the COVID-19 surge, the hospital teams reorganized to increase efficiency and avoid burnout. I meet with the third-year resident and the intern; a future dermatologist, who I have known since she was a student. My team has only volunteers; they want to see patients with COVID-19. At this moment of the pandemic, we have learned that asymptomatic transmission occurs and that with adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) no one in our hospital caught the virus [2, 3] . This combination makes us feel safe, as every one of our suspected COVID-19 patients is seen in full PPE, and our risk is thus low. COVID-19 transmissions through asymptomatic carriers is a challenge to containment. ./cache/cord-269593-ipxwf4pv.txt ./txt/cord-269593-ipxwf4pv.txt