A cluster of health care workers with COVID-19 pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2

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Protecting Healthcare Workers Amid the COVID-19 Crisis: A Safety Protocol in Wuhan

“…During the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak, many healthcare workers (HCWs) became infected due to lack of appropriate infection prevention and control protocols and implementation procedures. In Wuhan Union Hospital, 14 HCWs were infected by two index patients in the early days ( 5 ). In Italy, more than 3,300 HCWs had been infected, and at least 22 had died by early March, and by the end of March, COVID-19 had infected 20% of the frontline HCWs, and many had died ( 6 ).…”

Clinical presentation and outcomes of hospitalized adults with COVID‐19: A systematic review

“…People in close contact, such as family members and travel companions spread SAR‐CoV‐2 readily to each other (Lei et al., 2020; Liu, Fang, et al, 2020; Wang, Pan, et al, 2020). Others in close contact with COVID‐19 patients, such as healthcare providers, are also at increased risk for COVID‐19 (Chu et al., 2020; Huang, Wang, et al, 2020; Li, Peng, et al, 2020; Wei, Wang, Zhang, et al, 2020).…”

“…Most concerning to practicing nurses is the evidence that there is considerable nosocomial spread of SARS‐CoV‐2 (Mi et al., 2020; Peng et al., 2020). Many COVID‐19 patients are presumed to have been infected in healthcare settings (Chan et al., 2020; McMichael et al., 2020; Mi et al., 2020; Peng et al., 2020; Wang, Liu, et al, 2020; Wei, Wang, Zhang, et al, 2020). Moreover, epidemiological trends indicated that 2.4%–8.2% of all COVID‐19 cases in China were also healthcare workers (Chen, Wu, et al, 2020; Li, Xu, et al, 2020).…”

Potential sources, modes of transmission and effectiveness of prevention measures against SARS-CoV-2

“…Transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 are heterogeneously [20]. Numerous individual infection clusters in particular in Asia with variable size have been reported [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31].…”