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| Title: | Personnel protection strategy for healthcare workers in Wuhan during the COVID-19 epidemic | Authors: | Hou, FF Zhou, FL Xu, X Wang, DW Xu, G Jiang, T Nie, S Wu, XY Ren, CJ Wang, GY Lau, JYN Wang, XH Zhang, K |
Issue Date: | Sep-2021 | Source: | Precision clinical medicine, Sep. 2021, v. 3, no. 3, p. 169-174 | Abstract: | Objective: To identify the effectiveness of a personnel protection strategy in protection of healthcare workers from SARS-CoV-2 infection. Design: During the COVID-19 pandemic, 943 healthcare staff sent from Guangzhou to Wuhan to care for patients with suspected/confirmed COVID-19 received infection precaution training before their mission and were equipped with Level 2/3 personal protective equipment (PPE), in accordance with guidelines from the National Health Commission of China. We conducted a serological survey on the cumulative attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 among the healthcare workers sent to Wuhan and compared the seropositive rate to that in local healthcare workers from Wuhan and Jingzhou. Results: Serial tests for SARS-CoV-2 RNA and tests for SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin M and G after the 6-8 week mission revealed a zero cumulative attack rate. Among the local healthcare workers in Wuhan and Jingzhou of Hubei Province, 2.5% (113 out of 4495) and 0.32% (10 out of 3091) had RT-PCR confirmed COVID-19, respectively. The seropositivity for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies (IgG, IgM, or both IgG/IgM positive) was 3.4% (53 out of 1571) in local healthcare workers from Wuhan with Level 2/3 PPE working in isolation areas and 5.4% (126 out of 2336) in healthcare staff with Level 1 PPE working in non-isolation medical areas, respectively. Conclusions and relevance: Our study confirmed that adequate training/PPE can protect medical personnel against SARS-CoV-2. |
Keywords: | COVID-19 Healthcare workers Personal protective equipment (PPE) |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | Journal: | Precision clinical medicine | ISSN: | 2096-5303 | EISSN: | 2516-1571 | DOI: | 10.1093/pcmedi/pbaa024 | Rights: | © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the West China School of Medicine & West China Hospital of Sichuan University. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The following publication Hou, F. F., Zhou, F., Xu, X., Wang, D., Xu, G., Jiang, T., ... & Zhang, K. (2020). Personnel protection strategy for healthcare workers in Wuhan during the COVID-19 epidemic. Precision Clinical Medicine, 3(3), 169-174 is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/pcmedi/pbaa024 |
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