Risk of Secondary Household Transmission of COVID-19 from Health Care Workers in a Hospital in Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital health care workers are at high risk of developing COVID-19 and transmitting the disease to their family upon returning home; the aim here is to estimate the secondary attack rate of COVID-19 in household contacts of health care workers and their transmission risk factors.

Material and methods

COVID-19 cases in the health care workers of an academic hospital in Pamplona, Spain, from 2 March to 26 May 2020, were followed up. The secondary attack rate (SAR) was estimated from cases in household contacts of index cases and their risk factors by Poisson regression.

Results

89 index cases were studied from 99 notified cases in health care workers (89.0%), excluding secondary cases or those who lived alone. Forty-six secondary cases confirmed by the labo

SUBMITTER: Remon-Berrade M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9620916 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature