Update: Characteristics of Health Care Personnel with COVID-19 - United States, February 12-July 16, 2020.

Update: Characteristics of Health Care Personnel with COVID-19 - United States, February 12-July 16, 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020 Sep 25;69(38):1364-1368 Authors: Hughes MM, Groenewold MR, Lessem SE, Xu K, Ussery EN, Wiegand RE, Qin X, Do T, Thomas D, Tsai S, Davidson A, Latash J, Eckel S, Collins J, Ojo M, McHugh L, Li W, Chen J, Chan J, Wortham JM, Reagan-Steiner S, Lee JT, Reddy SC, Kuhar DT, Burrer SL, Stuckey MJ Abstract As of September 21, 2020, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had resulted in 6,786,352 cases and 199,024 deaths in the United States.* Health care personnel (HCP) are essential workers at risk for exposure to patients or infectious materials (1). The impact of COVID-19 on U.S. HCP was first described using national case surveillance data in April 2020 (2). Since then, the number of reported HCP with COVID-19 has increased tenfold. This update describes demographic characteristics, underlying medical conditions, hospitalizations, and intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, stratified by vital status, among 100,570 HCP with COVID-19 reported to CDC during February 12-July 16, 2020. HCP occupation type and job setting are newly reported. HCP status was available for 571,708 (22%) of 2,633,585 cases reported to CDC. Most HCP with COVID-19 were female (79%), aged 16-44 years (57%), not hospitalized (92%), and lacked all 10 underlying medical conditions specified on the case report form† (56%). ...
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