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 al., 2020). Here, we show that the proportion of both asymptomatic and symptomatic HCWs testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 rapidly declined to near-zero between 25th April and 24th May 2020, corresponding to a decline in patient admissions with COVID-19 during the ongoing UK ‘lockdown’. These data demonstrate how infection prevention and control measures including staff testing may help prevent hospitals from becoming independent ‘hubs’ of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and illustrate how, with appropriate precautions, organizations in other sectors may be able to resume on-site work safely..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

eLife - 9(2020)

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Nick K Jones [VerfasserIn]
Lucy Rivett [VerfasserIn]
Dominic Sparkes [VerfasserIn]
Sally Forrest [VerfasserIn]
Sushmita Sridhar [VerfasserIn]
Jamie Young [VerfasserIn]
Joana Pereira-Dias [VerfasserIn]
Claire Cormie [VerfasserIn]
Harmeet Gill [VerfasserIn]
Nicola Reynolds [VerfasserIn]
Michelle Wantoch [VerfasserIn]
Matthew Routledge [VerfasserIn]
Ben Warne [VerfasserIn]
Jack Levy [VerfasserIn]
William David Córdova Jiménez [VerfasserIn]
Fathima Nisha Begum Samad [VerfasserIn]
Chris McNicholas [VerfasserIn]
Mark Ferris [VerfasserIn]
Jane Gray [VerfasserIn]
Michael Gill [VerfasserIn]
The CITIID-NIHR COVID-19 BioResource Collaboration [VerfasserIn]
Martin D Curran [VerfasserIn]
Stewart Fuller [VerfasserIn]
Afzal Chaudhry [VerfasserIn]
Ashley Shaw [VerfasserIn]
John R Bradley [VerfasserIn]
Gregory J Hannon [VerfasserIn]
Ian G Goodfellow [VerfasserIn]
Gordon Dougan [VerfasserIn]
Kenneth GC Smith [VerfasserIn]
Paul J Lehner [VerfasserIn]
Giles Wright [VerfasserIn]
Nicholas J Matheson [VerfasserIn]
Stephen Baker [VerfasserIn]
Michael P Weekes [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biology (General)
COVID-19
Emerging pathogens
Infectious disease
Medicine
Occupational health
Q
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SARS-CoV-2
Science
Virology

doi:

10.7554/eLife.59391

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ004439406