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. 2021 Sep;51(6):560-563.
doi: 10.1016/j.idnow.2021.06.308. Epub 2021 Jul 7.

Burden of COVID-19 on workers in hospital settings: The French situation during the first wave of the pandemic

M Colomb-Cotinat  1 , I Poujol  2 , S Monluc  2 , S Vaux  2 , C Olivier  3 , S Le Vu  2 , N Floret  4 , F Golliot  5 , A Berger-Carbonne  2 ; GERES study group  6
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Burden of COVID-19 on workers in hospital settings: The French situation during the first wave of the pandemic

M Colomb-Cotinat et al. Infect Dis Now. 2021 Sep.

Abstract

We launched a survey in April 2020 to assess the number and proportion of hospital workers infected during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in France, and to assess the attributable mortality. All French hospital settings (HS) were invited to declare new cases and attributable deaths by occupation category each week. Between March 1 and June 28, 2020, participating HS accounted for 69.5% of the total number of HS workers in France, and declared 31,088 infected workers; 16 died from the infection. We estimated that 3.43% (95% CI: 3.42-3.45) of French workers in HS, and 3.97% (95% CI: 3.95-3.99) of healthcare workers were infected during the first wave. Workers in regions with a cumulative rate of hospitalized COVID-19 patients equal or above the national rate, HS other than tertiary hospitals, or occupations with frequent patient contacts were particularly impacted. Targeted prevention campaigns should be elaborated.

Keywords: COVID-19; Healthcare workers; Hospital settings.

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Fig. 1
Weekly number of hospital setting workers (n = 7320) infected with COVID-19 and number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, France (April 13 to June 28, 2020). Between March 1 and April 12, 2020, 23,768 cases occurred and were retrospectively reported aggregated, as prospective data collection started on April 13, 2020.
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Fig. 2
Proportion of SARS-CoV-2-infected workers in hospital settings by region, France (March 1 to June 28, 2020).
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