Unintended consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa
| dc.contributor.author | Schewitz, Ivan Anton | |
| dc.contributor.author | Zar, Heather J. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Masekela, Refiloe | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gordon, Stephen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ozoh, Obianuju | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kagima, Jacqueline | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gray, Diane | |
| dc.contributor.author | Binegdie, Amsalu | |
| dc.contributor.author | Irungu, Anne | |
| dc.contributor.author | Worodria, William | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-15T08:36:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-09-15T08:36:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | As we write this, a patient is in a local South African Hospital on a ventilator following a cardiac arrest after a massive pulmonary embolus. He recently returned from overseas. When he arrived, he had a cough and phoned his doctor, who instructed him to be tested for COVID-19 before a consultation. The results were delayed for a few days. Before the patient received the results which were negative, he had his pulmonary embolus, was admitted where he had a cardiac arrest with anoxic brain injury. This was an unintended and unreported consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The law of intended consequences has been defined as “The actions of people, and especially of governments, always have effects that are unanticipated or unintended.” | en_ZA |
| dc.description.department | Cardiology | en_ZA |
| dc.description.department | Surgery | en_ZA |
| dc.description.librarian | hj2021 | en_ZA |
| dc.description.uri | https://patsjournal.org | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Schewitz IA, Zar H, Masekela R, Gordon S, Ozoh O, Kagima J, et al. Unintended consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. Journal of the Pan African Thoracic Society 2020;1(1):3-5. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2694-4561 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.25259/JPATS_6_2020 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/81844 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Scientific Scholar | en_ZA |
| dc.rights | © 2020 Published by Scientific Scholar on behalf of Journal of the Pan African Thoracic Society. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License. | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | COVID-19 pandemic | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Unintended consequences | en_ZA |
| dc.title | Unintended consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |