Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity in a health care worker population during the early pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While others have reported severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2(SARS-CoV-2) seroprevalence studies in health care workers (HCWs), we leverage the use of a highly sensitive coronavirus antigen microarray to identify a group of seropositive health care workers who were missed by daily symptom screening that was instituted prior to any epidemiologically significant local outbreak. Given that most health care facilities rely on daily symptom screening as the primary method to identify SARS-CoV-2 among health care workers, here, we aim to determine how demographic, occupational, and clinical variables influence SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among health care workers.

Methods

We designed a cross-sectional survey of HCWs for SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity condu

SUBMITTER: Schubl SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10186297 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature