{"id":9173,"date":"2020-08-18T11:06:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T18:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9173"},"modified":"2021-04-15T11:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T18:07:39","slug":"coronavirus-2019-covid-19-infections-among-healthcare-workers-los-angeles-county-february-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/18\/coronavirus-2019-covid-19-infections-among-healthcare-workers-los-angeles-county-february-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Infections Among Healthcare Workers, Los Angeles County, February &#8211; May 2020"},"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\">Among<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0COVID-19 positive healthcare workers in Los Angeles County (n=5,118), Hartmann et al. found that the highest proportion worked in long-term care facilities (46%) and hospitals (2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">8<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%).\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sixty-eight percent<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0worked at some point during their infectious period, while nearly half reported a known exposure to a positive patient and\/or co-worker. Compared to the general population, healthcare workers reported lower hospitalization rates (5% vs 12%) and death rates (0.7% vs 4%).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hartmann et al. (Aug 17, 2020). Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Infections Among Healthcare Workers, Los Angeles County, February &#8211; May 2020. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1200\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1200<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among\u00a0COVID-19 positive healthcare workers in Los Angeles County (n=5,118), Hartmann et al. found that the highest proportion worked in long-term care facilities (46%) and hospitals (28%).\u00a0Sixty-eight percent\u00a0worked at some point during their infectious period, while nearly half reported a known exposure to a positive patient and\/or co-worker. Compared to the general population, healthcare workers reported&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/18\/coronavirus-2019-covid-19-infections-among-healthcare-workers-los-angeles-county-february-may-2020\/\">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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-9173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173","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=9173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}