Organizational and management solutions to control the spread of COVID-19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29296/25877305-2021-07-01
Issue:
7
Year:
2021
The progressive spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has required the urgent development of temporary
clinical recommendations for the treatment of patients, as well as algorithms for hospitalization, and
protocols for laboratory and clinical examinations. In addition, the important health care tasks are to
implement organizational measures aimed at mitigating the spread of the infection, such as the introduction
of quarantine measures, a mask regime, vaccination, and the standardization of testing methods for
coronavirus infection. The purpose of this review is to consider the existing methods and algorithms for the
implementation of the above measures. The paper considers the temporary clinical recommendations of the
Ministry of Health of Russia for the prevention, containment, diagnosis, and treatment of the novel
coronavirus infection, as well as the published studies of testing methods for COVID-19, the results of
clinical trials of drugs used in its treatment, and independent reviews of some of the currently presented
vaccines. Based on the described methods and approaches, conclusions are drawn about the inconsistency of
the effectiveness of various treatment approaches, hospitalization algorithms, and organizational measures.
Keywords:
infectious diseases
health care organization
SARS-CoV-2
vaccination
quarantine
mask regime
hospitalization algorithms
medications
testing for COVID-19
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