Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19/Equipment Task Force

New comers

Hi I'd like to help! I'm new to editing Wikipedia, would love some guidance. DazzleNovak (talk) 18:53, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

DazzleNovak, Daniele Pugliesi, hi there ! happy to see some new editors. As said earlier I do my best but the flow of daily emerging sources is important. Few points I can notes:

For DazzleNovak and MartinezMD,

• As of now, the hot spot is the COVID-19 related shortages article. I read 200 sources, integrated 60+, but there are 30 good quality sources Talk:Shortages_related_to_the_2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic#Sources. I grouped sources per topic. I you can attack one topic, read the sources, and integrate them in the article, it would be great. I would suggest to attack the Health Care Worker (HCW) group first, because this is a raising and under documented issue now : half HCW are sick on the 3rd week, hospitals hare therefore human resources depleted, etc. You may also look for "COVID + fired" or "COVID + PTSD", "COVID + health care workers + sick" I guess.

COVID-19 related shortages is an easy to remember shortcut and redirect to Shortages_related_to_the_2019–20_coronavirus_pandemic.

For Daniele Pugliesi, you expressed interest for PPE. I noticed that PPE articles are poor :

• Face_shield#Medical is a 2 line section.
• Personal protective equipment is for all professions, and therefore don't clearly defined the "Medical PPE".

We need a place which define the classic medical PPE for ICU staffs. Their gear + virus protection is the one all nurses and doctors now need. If you are ready to do some online research on this matter, you could start by creating a "ICU and hospitals PPE" section within Personal protective equipment, to document their classic PPE set and best practices. Be bold.

Yug (talk) 11:42, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Second issue, please ping me if you are new wikipedia editors needing technical help, so I can help on this side as well ;)

If you want to use the visual editor (easier), use these links :

• COVID-19 related shortages (VE)
• Personal protective equipment (VE).

Yug (talk) 11:42, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, @Yug:. I am an active user on it.wikipedia from years, but have not that much experience on editing in en.wikipedia, so probably I will need some help to understand some guidelines. Most important, I have knowledge of European Directives, where medical devices are not classified as PPE by law (they are considered two distinct categories of products, although a lot of consumers and companies look are not aware of this distinction), hence it will be useful to collaborate with someone that has knowledge of laws in U.S., Asia or other parts of the world. I would avoid to write in an EuropeanCommunity-centric point of view... --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 12:52, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

@Daniele Pugliesi: go ahead and write what you have, use European sources it's all good. Just state it, as usual. It will hopefully encourage others to write about USA and Asian guidelines. You may also look at the current news flow. There is a lot of non-conventional equipements entering in the ICUs these days. But this will rather go into COVID-19 related shortages. Yug (talk) 14:14, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

Hi! Can I join here? I don't know how to edit! Ano~t@○~m○ (talk) 6:32 1 November 2023 (UTC)

Plural form and page title

The following discussion is closed and will soon be archived: --Yug (talk) 17:15, 6 April 2020 (UTC)

For what I know, "equipment" is the plural form, so the correct page title is "Equipment Task Force" instead of "Equipments Task Force". --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 20:54, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

I'am not sure, I'am French. If you have some certainty, go ahead with the move. Yug (talk) 23:00, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

I am Italian and do not know if the term "Equipments" can be accepted in British English, however it is considered an error in my U.S. English browser dictionary. --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 16:11, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

Other personal protective equipment?

@Yug:@MartinezMD: I added "respirator" to the list. I think we could add more other personal protective equipment, e.g. PPE used by medical staff in hospitals to avoid contagious, and maybe also some collective protective equipment (CPE). On the other side, probably few of them are accepted globally as effective against COVID-19. Do you have any idea or suggestion at this regard? Which PPE or CPE do you think we can add to the list? --Daniele Pugliesi (talk) 21:00, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

@Daniele Pugliesi:

I saw in the news the Korean "phone booths", is it CPE ?

I also saw the term of "Non-pharmaceutical interventions", which doesn't have article.

Do you think you could provide a 5 lines starting-definition of CPE in collective protective equipment from the top of your head, then add 2 sources ?

Otherwise It could be added to the Personal protective equipment article. Yug (talk) 21:48, 4 April 2020 (UTC)

I grabbed this:

Among Chinese health workers, fatality was lower than among the general population in that country (Table 1). However, with regard to incidence, the Italian Group for Evidence-based Medicine reported that 8.3% of total COVID-19 cases recorded in Italy occurred among health workers, this being double that reported in China (3.8%).12 Lack of personal and collective protective equipment in health services, in addition to the large volume of cases, has contributed to this situation."

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