TY - JOUR T1 - Self-screening to reduce medical resource consumption facing the COVID-19 pandemic JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 255 LP - 255 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2020-209647 VL - 37 IS - 5 AU - I-Min Chiu AU - Chi-Yung Cheng AU - Huan Zhang AU - Chun-Hung Richard Lin Y1 - 2020/05/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/255.abstract N2 - The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has, as of this writing, infected at least 200 countries and killed more than 33 000 people.1 Owing to frequent business dealings and being only 81 miles from mainland China, Taiwan was previously considered to be a hot spot for COVID-19. However, thus far, Taiwan has had 306 confirmed cases and ranked 73rd on the list of infected areas. With its previous experience of the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic in 2003, rapid response and quick implementation between government and private enterprise, Taiwan has been able to prevent a large-scale epidemic.2 On 20 January 2020, the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced the activation of the Central Epidemic Command Center for COVID-19 and set up reporting criteria for real-time PCR tests.3 However, … ER -