SCW NEWSWATCH: "Study: COVID-19 risk 3 times higher for front-line health workers" - UPI 8.1.20

"... Even with adequate PPE, the risk of getting COVID-19 was almost 2.4 times greater for those caring for suspected COVID-19 patients ... around five times greater for those caring for people with confirmed COVID-19 [] compared with those ... not exposed to COVID-19 patients .... After accounting for pre-existing medical conditions, healthcare workers from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds were almost five times more likely to report a positive COVID-19 result than ... the public .... White healthcare workers were around 3.5 times more likely to have COVID-19 than the public .... COVID-19 [prevalence] among U.S. healthcare workers -- 461 per 100,000 app users -- was almost twice that of ... British counterparts, at 227 per 100,000 app users ...."

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