Working in corona-designated departments in a fortified underground hospital: Concerns about corona and predictors of job burnout.

Background: In August 2020 during Israel's second COVID-19 wave Rambam Medical Center opened the Sammy Ofer Fortified Underground Emergency Hospital. This was declared a regional Corona center in the north of Israel, receiving the most severe Corona patients from the region. Alongside the advanced inpatient capacity and technology within the underground facility, there was a severe shortage of trained medical and paramedical staff, as well as harsh working conditions.

Trends in Psychiatric Emergency Department Visits in Northern Israel During the COVID-19 Outbreak.

During the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), mandatory quarantines increased social isolation and anxiety, with inevitable consequences on mental health and health seeking behavior. We wished to estimate those trends. We examined all psychiatric visits to the emergency department (ED) during March, April 2020, compared to identical months in 2018, 2019.