For Chriskho, you made the right decision........Health care workers most at risk for COVID-19.

[2greys]

Health care workers — particularly nurses — have a higher prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection than non-health care workers, according to researchers at Rutgers, which released baseline results from a large prospective study of participants at Rutgers and affiliated hospitals recruited during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The study, published in the journal BMC Infectious Diseases, found that in early spring, the participants most likely to test positive for COVID-19 were nurses, workers taking care of multiple patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 and those who worked in a hospital with a higher proportion of infected patients.

As of Nov. 15, 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control, there were more than 216,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases among health care workers in the United States, leading to at least 799 deaths. The Rutgers study evaluated 546 health care workers with direct patient exposure at two New Jersey hospitals and 283 non-health care workers with no direct patient contact.

rutgers.edu/news/health-car...

BMC Infectious Diseases. Research Paper:

bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral....

[Badbessie]

Thank you for this. On another forum there is an on going debate on this very subject which I have been following. In reality it's conclusions only follow common sense concepts. The more you work with an infection, the more chance of catching it.

[2greys in reply to Badbessie]

Feel free to add it to that debate. It is in the public domain for everyone to access.

[Kristicats]

Thank 2Gs

I think everyone will be shocked when this is all over just how many nurses and medics will have died despite wearing head to toe PPE.

I do want to say to people breaking the rules “ so how many nurses do you want to kill?” I lost one of my team in April and a few more are still suffering badly with the after effects of covid.