An Exceptional Condition in the Time of COVID-19: Health professionals and Workers Cannot Isolate Themselves

Abstract

In these exceptional times caring for the caregivers represents a priority as important as implementing the measures required for the Covid-19 pandemic. The world has stopped and it appears an uncertain perspective of how and what it will be like to inhabit it again. In this dramatic situation, the community of health workers is in full activity while undergoing an unprecedented physical and mental demand. Compliance with social isolation is what keeps the community safe in general, but health workers remain in the trench. Their specific activity and work, which prevent them from isolating themserlves, imply maximum exposure increasing both their infectious vulnerability and emotional health. Close and continuous contact with the effects of the pandemic in the health area agressively exposes them to the emotional drama that they must attend and cannot avoid. Vulnerability and protection factors are described, both individually and from the community health network.