Dr. Lynda Sisson:

Yes, indeed. At the very early stages, we developed a guideline document for pregnant healthcare workers, very high-risk healthcare workers and high-risk healthcare workers. We put that up on the HPSC website.

We identified the different risk assessments that are assigned to different people. We divided our workers into those who were working with patients in direct care and those who did not have direct patient care. This was a guideline that identified by name in some cases all of the different underlying diseases that were of concern. We had a whole process in place for those who did have underlying diseases to assist them either in being redeployed, to cocoon if it was appropriate, and to support themselves in terms of the PPE etc. that they would need when working.