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Burden of COVID-19 on workers in hospital settings: The French situation during the first wave of the pandemic

We launched a survey in April 2020 to assess the number and proportion of hospital workers infected during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in France, and to assess the attributable mortality. All French hospital settings (HS) were invited to declare new cases and attributable deaths by occup...

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Autores principales: Colomb-Cotinat, M., Poujol, I., Monluc, S., Vaux, S., Olivier, C., Le Vu, S., Floret, N., Golliot, F., Berger-Carbonne, A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Authors. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8262402/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34245939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idnow.2021.06.308
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Sumario:We launched a survey in April 2020 to assess the number and proportion of hospital workers infected during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in France, and to assess the attributable mortality. All French hospital settings (HS) were invited to declare new cases and attributable deaths by occupation category each week. Between March 1 and June 28, 2020, participating HS accounted for 69.5% of the total number of HS workers in France, and declared 31,088 infected workers; 16 died from the infection. We estimated that 3.43% (95% CI: 3.42–3.45) of French workers in HS, and 3.97% (95% CI: 3.95–3.99) of healthcare workers were infected during the first wave. Workers in regions with a cumulative rate of hospitalized COVID-19 patients equal or above the national rate, HS other than tertiary hospitals, or occupations with frequent patient contacts were particularly impacted. Targeted prevention campaigns should be elaborated.