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THURSDAY, Oct. 29, 2020<\/p>\n
Nearly 6 percent of patients requiring hospitalization for COVID-19<\/a> are health care personnel (HCP), according to research published in the Oct. 26 early-release issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a> Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report<\/em>.<\/p>\n Anita K. Kambhampati, M.P.H., from the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues from the COVID-19<\/a>-Associated Hospitalization Surveillance Network (COVID-NET) used the COVID-NET data (98 counties in 13 states) to identify 6,760 adults hospitalized between March 1 and May 31, 2020, for whom HCP status was known.<\/p>\n The researchers found that 5.9 percent of patients were HCP. The largest proportion of HCP hospitalized with COVID-19<\/a> were in nursing<\/a>-related occupations (36.3 percent). For hospitalized HCP, the median age was 49 years and 89.8 percent had at least one underlying medical condition. Obesity<\/a> was the most commonly reported underlying medical condition (72.5 percent). Severe COVID-19<\/a> disease was seen among a substantial proportion of HCP, including 27.5 percent admitted to an intensive care unit, 15.8 percent requiring invasive mechanical ventilation, and 4.2 percent who died during hospitalization.<\/p>\n “HCP can have severe COVID-19<\/a>\u2013associated illness, highlighting the need for continued infection prevention<\/a> and control in health care settings as well as community mitigation efforts to reduce transmission,” the authors write.<\/p>\n
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