Online ISSN: 2515-8260

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice toward COVID-19 among the Population attending primary healthcare centers in Makkah Al-Mukarramah Saudi Arabia 2022

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Ahmed Khaled Shukri1 , Ismail Muhammad Sardar Ali Ahmed2 , Sami Abdul Rahman Hassan Iraqi3 , Fahad Talal Khalil Nakhal4 , Saeed Abdul Rahman Muhammad Al-Zahrani5 , Abed Rabbo Abdullah Mohammed Al-Huthly5 , Nehad Saad Albrri6 , Hashem Alawi Mohealden Melebary7 , Bakur Gmal Abdulrazak Badwi7 , Suwailah Aidh Saleeh Aljuaid8 , Mohammed Hajar M Almuntasheri9 , Nawal Saleh Alkinani10, Raqayah Essa Mohammed Taqroni11, Dana Mohammed Alqarni12

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Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a pandemic, it has become a major challenging public health problem worldwide. This pandemic has affected all aspects of Population life in almost all nations and among all socioeconomic groups. Population of all types are facing an unprecedented crisis with the rapid spread of COVID-19 and severity of the disease in many infected individuals. As such many healthcare systems have been overwhelmed and HCWs presented with work load . There is a potential shortage of physical resources, such as ventilators and intensive care unit beds, needed to care for surges of critically ill patients, however, additional medical supplies and beds will be of limited help unless there is an adequate medical workforce, as the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) continues to occur in small outbreaks in Saudi Arabia

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