SARS-CoV2 antibody positivity rates and employee expectations of positivity rates among health care workers at a community hospital in North Carolina

Our study surveyed over 2000 employees of a community health care system in the Southeast United States for SARS-CoV2 antibodies. Survey included subjects’ expectation of the result. Our local area had low community prevalence of SARS-CoV2 but low diagnostic testing capacity during much of the early...

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Autores principales: Arnoczy, Gretchen Shaughnessy, Forest, Elise, Lee, Jayne, Elkins, Erica, Goins, Dana, Gilleland, William Northwood, Canfield, Evan, Coe, Samantha, Barnes, Daniel, Schirmer, Charles
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8106531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33974933
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.04.086
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author Arnoczy, Gretchen Shaughnessy
Forest, Elise
Lee, Jayne
Elkins, Erica
Goins, Dana
Gilleland, William Northwood
Canfield, Evan
Coe, Samantha
Barnes, Daniel
Schirmer, Charles
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Forest, Elise
Lee, Jayne
Elkins, Erica
Goins, Dana
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description Our study surveyed over 2000 employees of a community health care system in the Southeast United States for SARS-CoV2 antibodies. Survey included subjects’ expectation of the result. Our local area had low community prevalence of SARS-CoV2 but low diagnostic testing capacity during much of the early phase of the epidemic. Despite only 3% positivity rate for antibodies in this population, 17% of subjects expected to have positive antibodies.
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spelling pubmed-81065312021-05-10 SARS-CoV2 antibody positivity rates and employee expectations of positivity rates among health care workers at a community hospital in North Carolina Arnoczy, Gretchen Shaughnessy Forest, Elise Lee, Jayne Elkins, Erica Goins, Dana Gilleland, William Northwood Canfield, Evan Coe, Samantha Barnes, Daniel Schirmer, Charles Am J Infect Control Brief Report Our study surveyed over 2000 employees of a community health care system in the Southeast United States for SARS-CoV2 antibodies. Survey included subjects’ expectation of the result. Our local area had low community prevalence of SARS-CoV2 but low diagnostic testing capacity during much of the early phase of the epidemic. Despite only 3% positivity rate for antibodies in this population, 17% of subjects expected to have positive antibodies. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-09 2021-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8106531/ /pubmed/33974933 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.04.086 Text en © 2021 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Arnoczy, Gretchen Shaughnessy
Forest, Elise
Lee, Jayne
Elkins, Erica
Goins, Dana
Gilleland, William Northwood
Canfield, Evan
Coe, Samantha
Barnes, Daniel
Schirmer, Charles
SARS-CoV2 antibody positivity rates and employee expectations of positivity rates among health care workers at a community hospital in North Carolina
title SARS-CoV2 antibody positivity rates and employee expectations of positivity rates among health care workers at a community hospital in North Carolina
title_full SARS-CoV2 antibody positivity rates and employee expectations of positivity rates among health care workers at a community hospital in North Carolina
title_fullStr SARS-CoV2 antibody positivity rates and employee expectations of positivity rates among health care workers at a community hospital in North Carolina
title_full_unstemmed SARS-CoV2 antibody positivity rates and employee expectations of positivity rates among health care workers at a community hospital in North Carolina
title_short SARS-CoV2 antibody positivity rates and employee expectations of positivity rates among health care workers at a community hospital in North Carolina
title_sort sars-cov2 antibody positivity rates and employee expectations of positivity rates among health care workers at a community hospital in north carolina
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8106531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33974933
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2021.04.086
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