COVID-19 screening of health-care workers in a London maternity hospital

Affiliations

¹ Fetal Medicine Unit, St George's Hospital, St George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK; Vascular Biology Research Centre, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK. Electronic address: akhalil@sgul.ac.uk.
² The Portland Hospital for Women and Children, London, UK; Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.
³ Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK; Immunisation and Countermeasures Division, Public Health England, London, UK.
⁴ The Portland Hospital for Women and Children, London, UK.
⁵ The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London, UK; University College London Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK.

Asma Khalil et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;21(1):23-24.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30403-5. Epub 2020 May 18.

¹ Fetal Medicine Unit, St George's Hospital, St George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK; Vascular Biology Research Centre, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, St George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK. Electronic address: akhalil@sgul.ac.uk.
² The Portland Hospital for Women and Children, London, UK; Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.
³ Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St George's University of London, London SW17 0RE, UK; Immunisation and Countermeasures Division, Public Health England, London, UK.
⁴ The Portland Hospital for Women and Children, London, UK.
⁵ The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, London, UK; University College London Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, UK.

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