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dhrp-39	Rao, Sohail; Singh, Manish	Growing Shortage of Healthcare Workers Poses an Existential Threat to the Public Health System: Strategies to Mitigate this Challenge in the Face of COVID-19 Pandemic	2021	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1479	84	26	The focus of this manuscript was to underscore the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare industry and to propose innovative solutions to mitigate the shortage of healthcare workers. Understand the local epidemiology of COVID-19- related indicators (e.g., community transmission levels)  Communicate with local healthcare coalitions and federal, state, and local public health partners (e.g., public health emergency preparedness and response staff) to identify additional healthcare personnel (e.g., hiring additional healthcare personnel, recruiting retired healthcare personnel, using students or volunteers), when needed Under these revised CDC guidelines, healthcare workers who either have asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and/or higher-risk exposure (6) are allowed to return to onsite work as long as there is strict screening and surveillance protocol in place (Table 1).	cache/dhrp-39.pdf	txt/dhrp-39.txt