{"id":2757,"date":"2020-12-15T15:12:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T23:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2757"},"modified":"2020-12-16T15:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T23:13:51","slug":"covid-19-infections-among-healthcare-personnel-in-the-united-states-veterans-health-administration-march-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/15\/covid-19-infections-among-healthcare-personnel-in-the-united-states-veterans-health-administration-march-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Infections Among Healthcare Personnel in the United States Veterans Health Administration, March \u2013 August, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among 131,606 healthcare personnel (HCP) in the US Veterans Health Administration, 5,925 (4.5%) had positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests. HCP who were working in hospitals with &gt;15% SARS-CoV-2 positivity among inpatients, as well as nursing staff, HCP who identify as Black or Hispanic, and veterans were at highest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Male sex, age over 65 years, and veteran status were significant risk factors for mortality among the 18 HCP who died.<\/p>\n<p><i>Oda et al. (Dec 11, 2020). COVID-19 Infections Among Healthcare Personnel in the United States Veterans Health Administration, March \u2013 August, 2020. Journal of Occupational &amp; Environmental Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/JOM.0000000000002109\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/JOM.0000000000002109<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 131,606 healthcare personnel (HCP) in the US Veterans Health Administration, 5,925 (4.5%) had positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR tests. HCP who were working in hospitals with &gt;15% SARS-CoV-2 positivity among inpatients, as well as nursing staff, HCP who identify as Black or Hispanic, and veterans were at highest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Male sex, age over&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/15\/covid-19-infections-among-healthcare-personnel-in-the-united-states-veterans-health-administration-march-august-2020\/\">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":[25,34,75,76],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-candidate","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-report","tag-summarize","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757","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=2757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2757\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2757"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}