{"id":3873,"date":"2021-02-11T18:34:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2021-02-11T18:34:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T02:34:14","slug":"impact-of-covid-19-vaccination-program-on-healthcare-worker-infections-in-an-academic-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/11\/impact-of-covid-19-vaccination-program-on-healthcare-worker-infections-in-an-academic-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of COVID-19 Vaccination Program on Healthcare Worker Infections in an Academic Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An academic hospital in Virginia reported a 25% decrease in health care worker (HCW) SARS-CoV-2 infections 6 days after beginning employee immunizations. Vaccines included both the Pfizer vaccine initiated on December 12, 2020 and the Moderna vaccine initiated on December 28, 2020. After achieving 60% vaccination coverage of the 1st dose, infections decreased by 50%. Other infection control measures were concurrently implemented with vaccination, including limiting visitors, stricter mask and face shield policies among employees, and adjustments to improve physical distancing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Dunbar et al. (Feb 10, 2021). Impact of COVID-19 Vaccination Program on Healthcare Worker Infections in an Academic Hospital. Infection Control &amp; Hospital Epidemiology. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.62\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2021.62<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An academic hospital in Virginia reported a 25% decrease in health care worker (HCW) SARS-CoV-2 infections 6 days after beginning employee immunizations. Vaccines included both the Pfizer vaccine initiated on December 12, 2020 and the Moderna vaccine initiated on December 28, 2020. After achieving 60% vaccination coverage of the 1st dose, infections decreased by 50%&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/11\/impact-of-covid-19-vaccination-program-on-healthcare-worker-infections-in-an-academic-hospital\/\">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":[32,37,33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-immunity","tag-non-pharm-interventions","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","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=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}