Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

September 23, 2020

Risk of Covid-19 Acquisition among Emergency Department Patients: A Retrospective Case Control Study. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

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  • Spending time in an emergency department (ED) at the same time as someone with COVID-19 did not appear to increase the risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 infection. These findings are based on a case-control study across 39 EDs in the western US including 102 cases who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 following an ED encounter unrelated to COVID-19 symptoms and 201 controls who visited the same ED within 6 days of the case patient and subsequently tested negative.

Ridgway and Robicsek. (Sept 23, 2020). Risk of Covid-19 Acquisition among Emergency Department Patients: A Retrospective Case Control Study. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1224