Taiwan's response to COVID-19 as a case study in risk communication during a healthcare crisis

Taiwan's response to COVID-19 as a case study in risk communication during a healthcare crisis

　A declaration honoring healthcare professionals fighting COVID-19 was announced by the Japan nursing ethics association on April 2,¹ due to many healthcare workers being slandered by Japanese society. According to Katsuhara from the same association in the radio interview on April 14,² cases of prejudice such as refusing to allow healthcare workers' children to attend school because they are from a family of high risk of infection since caregivers who encounter any patient with respiratory illness may not have enough mask, gloves, goggles and other barrier precautions as recommended while cluster infections are reported in several medical facilities. It's an important issue on ethics crisis coming from a very serious problems in risk management in Japanese society.

　By following the press conference of Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC)³ from January 23 to date by internet, as a nurse and also as a Taiwanese living in Japan, the author would like to describe the treatment of health care workers in Taiwan during this global crises of COVID-19 infection as a model of crisis management and communication.

　A declaration honoring healthcare professionals fighting COVID-19 was announced by the Japan nursing ethics association on April 2,¹ due to many healthcare workers being slandered by Japanese society. According to Katsuhara from the same association in the radio interview on April 14,² cases of prejudice such as refusing to allow healthcare workers' children to attend school because they are from a family of high risk of infection since caregivers who encounter any patient with respiratory illness may not have enough mask, gloves, goggles and other barrier precautions as recommended while cluster infections are reported in several medical facilities. It's an important issue on ethics crisis coming from a very serious problems in risk management in Japanese society.

　By following the press conference of Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control (CDC)³ from January 23 to date by internet, as a nurse and also as a Taiwanese living in Japan, the author would like to describe the treatment of health care workers in Taiwan during this global crises of COVID-19 infection as a model of crisis management and communication.