Initial estimates of COVID-19 infections in hospital workers in the United States during the first wave of pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We estimated the number of hospital workers in the United States (US) that might be infected or die during the COVID-19 pandemic based on the data in the early phases of the pandemic.

Methods

We calculated infection and death rates amongst US hospital workers per 100 COVID-19-related deaths in the general population based on observed numbers in Hubei, China, and Italy. We used Monte Carlo simulations to compute point estimates with 95% confidence intervals for hospital worker (HW) infections in the US based on each of these two scenarios. We also assessed the impact of restricting hospital workers aged ≥ 60 years from performing patient care activities on these estimates.

Results

We estimated that about 53,000 hospital workers in the US could get infected, a

SUBMITTER: Razzak JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7717542 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature