Are COVID-19-dedicated hospitals useful to limit SARS-CoV-2 infections and optimize the healthcare resources during the COVID-19 pandemic?
The designation of COVID-19-dedicated wards and personnel within hospitals is useful to limit nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 infections.108 It also allows other non-COVID-19 conditions to be treated using routine healthcare resources more safely and effectively. Maintaining such separation requires intensive SARS-CoV-2 testing in view of the high asymptomatic infection rate.259