{"id":8971,"date":"2020-08-11T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8971"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:01:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:01:20","slug":"prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-among-health-care-workers-in-a-tertiary-community-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-among-health-care-workers-in-a-tertiary-community-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Community Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At a large tertiary community hospital in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">New York City<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection among health care workers (n=3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">046) was lower than what has been reported for the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">general public<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in the surrounding region.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among the hospital employees<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a010<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% tested positive for antibodies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, compared to seroprevalence estimates of 21% for New York City and 17% for Long Island. There\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">no significant difference across job titles or work areas,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">by\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">race, or\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">between those working in high versus<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0low exposure areas.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Jeremias et al. (Aug 11, 2020). Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Community Hospital. JAMA Internal Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.4214\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.4214<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a large tertiary community hospital in\u00a0New York City, the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infection among health care workers (n=3,046) was lower than what has been reported for the\u00a0general public\u00a0in the surrounding region.\u00a0Among the hospital employees,\u00a010% tested positive for antibodies, compared to seroprevalence estimates of 21% for New York City and 17% for Long Island. There\u00a0were\u00a0no&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-among-health-care-workers-in-a-tertiary-community-hospital\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-8971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8972,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8971\/revisions\/8972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8971"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}