Seroprevalence of COVID-19 Amongst Health Care Workers in a Tertiary Care Hospital of a Metropolitan City from India

COVID‐19 prevalence among health‐care workers of Gastroenterology department: An audit from a tertiary‐care hospital in India

“…In our earlier study, however, we did find higher COVID-19 prevalence in the gastroenterology department compared to other departments, such as oncology, pathology, critical care, and emergency. 16 In conclusion, our study showed a high prevalence of COVID-19 in Gastroenterology HCWs with a higher incidence in endoscopy technicians. Such prevalence might reflect the disease burden in the general population, volume of endoscopy work, and-most significantly-hospital policy in terms of patient testing and use of PPE.…”

“…In an earlier study of ours, which was aimed to assess the seroprevalence of COVID-19 in various clinical departments, we found a high prevalence of COVID-19 among HCWs working in the Gastroenterology department. 16 This could possibly be attributed to the regular performance of gastrointestinal endoscopies, which are considered to be aerosol-generating procedures. 15 Gastroenterology and endoscopy practice in our country has gone through three phases in the current pandemic.…”

“…15 In our previous study, we showed that HCWs working in the Gastroenterology department exhibited the highest seroprevalence rate for COVID-19. 16 There is, however, scarcity of data on the burden of COVID-19 among HCWs in the Gastroenterology and Endoscopy services. 17,18 We, therefore, conducted a prospective study in the Gastroenterology department of a large tertiary-care hospital in India to study the burden of COVID-19 among HCWs and its correlation with the demographic characteristics of HCWs, their job profiles, and nature of work.…”

Update Alert 7: Epidemiology of and Risk Factors for Coronavirus Infection in Health Care Workers

“…The original rapid review included 34 studies on risk factors for coronavirus infections (3 studies on SARS-CoV-2 infection, 29 studies on SARS-CoV-1 infection, and 2 studies on Middle East respiratory syndrome–CoV infection) ( 1 ); 46 studies (44 studies on SARS-CoV-2 infection, 0 studies on SARS-CoV-1 infection, and 2 studies on Middle East respiratory syndrome–CoV infection) were added in prior updates ( 2 , 21–25 ). For this update, 12 cohort studies ( 3–9 , 11 , 14 , 15 , 18 , 19 ) and 6 cross-sectional studies ( 10 , 12 , 13 , 16 , 17 , 20 ) were added ( Supplement Table 1 ). Four studies were done in the United States ( 4 , 7 , 18 , 20 ), 10 in Europe (Spain [ 5 , 11 , 14 ], Italy [ 8 , 9 ], the United Kingdom [ 12 , 17 ], France [ 13 ], Sweden [ 15 ], and the Netherlands [ 15 ]), 2 in India ( 6 , 10 ), and 1 each in China ( 19 ) and Egypt ( 3 ).…”

“…In 4 studies that controlled for confounders, adjusted ORs ranged from 1.92 to 2.79 ( 4 , 12 , 17 , 20 ). Nine new studies reported inconsistent associations between direct patient contact or contact with patients with COVID-19 and risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection or seropositivity primarily based on unadjusted risk estimates ( 3–5 , 7 , 8 , 10 , 14 , 18 , 19 ). In 2 studies that controlled for potential confounders, direct contact with patients with COVID-19 was associated with increased risk for infection versus no contact (adjusted OR, 1.69 [CI, 1.28 to 2.24]) ( 14 ) and versus a nonclinical health care worker role (adjusted OR, 3.08 [CI, 1.09 to 8.78]) ( 13 ).…”