Return to work for healthcare workers with confirmed COVID-19 infection

Joyce C Zhang^{1

2}, Aidan Findlater³, Peter Cram⁴, Anil Adisesh^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Occupational Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Division of Occupational Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Sinai Health System and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Editorial

Joyce C Zhang et al. Occup Med (Lond). 2020.

. 2020 Jul 17;70(5):345-346.

doi: 10.1093/occmed/kqaa092.

Joyce C Zhang^{1

2}, Aidan Findlater³, Peter Cram⁴, Anil Adisesh^{1

2}

¹ Division of Occupational Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Division of Occupational Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Sinai Health System and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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