{"id":2244,"date":"2020-11-18T12:20:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2020-11-19T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T20:23:36","slug":"prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-previously-undiagnosed-health-care-workers-in-new-jersey-at-the-onset-of-the-u-s-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/18\/prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-previously-undiagnosed-health-care-workers-in-new-jersey-at-the-onset-of-the-u-s-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Previously Undiagnosed Health Care Workers in New Jersey, at the Onset of the U.S. COVID-19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, non-ICU healthcare workers had higher rates of SARS-CoV2 when compared to the general population. A cross-sectional study conducted in a university and two affiliated university hospitals in New Jersey found that healthcare workers had a higher rate of SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity when compared to non-healthcare workers (40\/546 [7.3%] vs. 1\/283 [0.4%]). Among healthcare workers, nurses had a higher likelihood evidence of infection compared physicians and those who reported recently caring for 5 or more patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 (vs. caring for less patients) had a higher likelihood of infection. ICU workers had lower rates than those working in other units (2% vs. 5-10%).<\/p>\n<p><i>Barrett et al. (Nov 16, 2020). Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Previously Undiagnosed Health Care Workers in New Jersey, at the Onset of the U.S. COVID-19 Pandemic. BMC Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12879-020-05587-2\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12879-020-05587-2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, non-ICU healthcare workers had higher rates of SARS-CoV2 when compared to the general population. A cross-sectional study conducted in a university and two affiliated university hospitals in New Jersey found that healthcare workers had a higher rate of SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity when compared to non-healthcare workers (40\/546 [7.3%]&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/18\/prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-previously-undiagnosed-health-care-workers-in-new-jersey-at-the-onset-of-the-u-s-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2246,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}