Terrorist Attacks Against COVID-19-Related Targets during the Pandemic Year 2020: A Review of 165 Incidents in the Global Terrorism Database.

Harald G De Cauwer Dennis G Barten Derrick TinLuc J MortelmansBart LesaffreFrancis SomvilleGregory R Ciottone

Published in: Prehospital and disaster medicine (2022)

This analysis of the GTD, which identified 165 COVID-19-related terrorist attacks in 2020, demonstrates that the COVID-19 pandemic truly resulted in new threats for COVID-19 patients, aid workers, hospitals, and testing and quarantine centers. It is anticipated that vaccination centers have become a new target of COVID-19-related terrorism in 2021 and 2022.

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coronavirus disease
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
healthcare
patient safety
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quality improvement