Prevalence and Clinical Presentation of Health Care Workers With Symptoms of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in 2 Dutch Hospitals During an Early Phase of the Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

On February 27, 2020, the first patient with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was reported in the Netherlands. During the following weeks, at 2 Dutch teaching hospitals, 9 health care workers (HCWs) received a diagnosis of COVID-19, 8 of whom had no history of travel to China or northern Italy, raising the question of whether undetected community circulation was occurring.

Objective

To determine the prevalence and clinical presentation of COVID-19 among HCWs with self-reported fever or respiratory symptoms.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study was performed in 2 teaching hospitals in the southern part of the Netherlands in March 2020, during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Health care workers employed in the participatin

SUBMITTER: Kluytmans-van den Bergh MFQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7243090 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature