Risk of COVID-19 among frontline healthcare workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Data for frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection are limited and whether personal protective equipment (PPE) mitigates this risk is unknown. We evaluated risk for COVID-19 among frontline HCWs compared to the general community and the influence of PPE.

Methods

We performed a prospective cohort study of the general community, including frontline HCWs, who reported information through the COVID Symptom Study smartphone application beginning on March 24 (United Kingdom, U.K.) and March 29 (United States, U.S.) through April 23, 2020. We used Cox proportional hazards modeling to estimate multivariate-adjusted hazard ratios (aHRs) of a positive COVID-19 test.

Findings

Among 2,035,395 community individuals and 99,795 frontline HCWs, w

SUBMITTER: Nguyen LH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7273299 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature