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Emerg Infect Dis
. 2021 Dec 2;28(1).
doi: 10.3201/eid2801.211803. Online ahead of print.
Risk Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Healthcare Personnel, May-December 2020
Nora Chea, Cedric J Brown, Taniece Eure, Rebecca Alkis Ramirez, Gregory Blazek, Austin R Penna, Ruoran Li, Christopher A Czaja, Helen Johnston, Devra Barter, Betsy Feighner Miller, Kathleen Angell, Kristen E Marshall, Ashley Fell, Sara Lovett, Sarah Lim, Ruth Lynfield, Sarah Shrum Davis, Erin C Phipps, Marla Sievers, Ghinwa Dumyati, Cathleen Concannon, Kathryn McCullough, Amy Woods, Sandhya Seshadri, Christopher Myers, Rebecca Pierce, Valerie L S Ocampo, Judith A Guzman-Cottrill, Gabriela Escutia, Monika Samper, Nicola D Thompson, Shelley S Magill, Cheri T Grigg
Abstract
To determine risk factors for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) among US healthcare personnel (HCP), we conducted a case-control analysis. We collected data about activities outside the workplace and COVID-19 patient care activities from HCP with positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) test results (cases) and from HCP with negative test results (controls) in healthcare facilities in 5 US states. We used conditional logistic regression to calculate adjusted matched odds ratios and 95% CIs for exposures. Among 345 cases and 622 controls, factors associated with risk were having close contact with persons with COVID-19 outside the workplace, having close contact with COVID-19 patients in the workplace, and assisting COVID-19 patients with activities of daily living. Protecting HCP from COVID-19 may require interventions that reduce their exposures outside the workplace and improve their ability to more safely assist COVID-19 patients with activities of daily living.
Keywords: 2019 novel coronavirus disease; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; United States; coronavirus disease; healthcare personnel; respiratory infections; risk factors; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.
. 2021 Dec 2;28(1).
doi: 10.3201/eid2801.211803. Online ahead of print.
Risk Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among US Healthcare Personnel, May-December 2020
Nora Chea, Cedric J Brown, Taniece Eure, Rebecca Alkis Ramirez, Gregory Blazek, Austin R Penna, Ruoran Li, Christopher A Czaja, Helen Johnston, Devra Barter, Betsy Feighner Miller, Kathleen Angell, Kristen E Marshall, Ashley Fell, Sara Lovett, Sarah Lim, Ruth Lynfield, Sarah Shrum Davis, Erin C Phipps, Marla Sievers, Ghinwa Dumyati, Cathleen Concannon, Kathryn McCullough, Amy Woods, Sandhya Seshadri, Christopher Myers, Rebecca Pierce, Valerie L S Ocampo, Judith A Guzman-Cottrill, Gabriela Escutia, Monika Samper, Nicola D Thompson, Shelley S Magill, Cheri T Grigg
- PMID: 34856114
- DOI: 10.3201/eid2801.211803
Abstract
To determine risk factors for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) among US healthcare personnel (HCP), we conducted a case-control analysis. We collected data about activities outside the workplace and COVID-19 patient care activities from HCP with positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) test results (cases) and from HCP with negative test results (controls) in healthcare facilities in 5 US states. We used conditional logistic regression to calculate adjusted matched odds ratios and 95% CIs for exposures. Among 345 cases and 622 controls, factors associated with risk were having close contact with persons with COVID-19 outside the workplace, having close contact with COVID-19 patients in the workplace, and assisting COVID-19 patients with activities of daily living. Protecting HCP from COVID-19 may require interventions that reduce their exposures outside the workplace and improve their ability to more safely assist COVID-19 patients with activities of daily living.
Keywords: 2019 novel coronavirus disease; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; United States; coronavirus disease; healthcare personnel; respiratory infections; risk factors; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; viruses; zoonoses.