Effective control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission between healthcare workers during a period of diminished community prevalence of COVID-19

Effective control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission between healthcare workers during a period of diminished community prevalence of COVID-19

Previously, we showed that 3% (31/1032)of asymptomatic healthcare workers (HCWs) from a large teaching hospital in Cambridge, UK, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in April 2020. About 15% (26/169) HCWs with symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) also tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (Rivett et...

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Main Authors: Nick K Jones, Lucy Rivett, Dominic Sparkes, Sally Forrest, Sushmita Sridhar, Jamie Young, Joana Pereira-Dias, Claire Cormie, Harmeet Gill, Nicola Reynolds, Michelle Wantoch, Matthew Routledge, Ben Warne, Jack Levy, William David Córdova Jiménez, Fathima Nisha Begum Samad, Chris McNicholas, Mark Ferris, Jane Gray, Michael Gill, The CITIID-NIHR COVID-19 BioResource Collaboration, Martin D Curran, Stewart Fuller, Afzal Chaudhry, Ashley Shaw, John R Bradley, Gregory J Hannon, Ian G Goodfellow, Gordon Dougan, Kenneth GC Smith, Paul J Lehner, Giles Wright, Nicholas J Matheson, Stephen Baker, Michael P Weekes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2020-06-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
infectious disease
virology
occupational health
emerging pathogens
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/59391

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