Abstract:Oral health care workers constitute a high-risk profession to contract COVID-19. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and clinical experience of COVID-19 infected oral health workers at an academic hospital in Gauteng, South Africa. A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study was conducted among staff who contracted COVID-19 betweenMay and December 2020. Data was captured in Excel and analyzed with Stata (StataCorp, USA). COVID-19 prevalence among 219 members of staff was 22.4%, and 46 partic… Show more
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