2020-04-16, 10:36 AM
CDC estimates at least 9,200 health care workers have been infected with coronavirus
By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
April 15, 2020 | 6:13pm
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Nurse Elizabeth Moyano at St. Mary's General Hospital in New Jersey Matthew McDermott
At least 9,200 health care workers in the US have been infected by the coronavirus since the outbreak of the deadly pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.
That number is likely an underestimate as most COVID-19 infection reports don’t identify whether the patient worked in the health field, [url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e6.htm?s_cid=mm6915e6_w]the CDC noted in its first look at the impact on the country’s medical professionals.
The national public health agency said it scoured data from all 50 states between Feb. 12 and April 9 and came up with 315,531 confirmed coronavirus cases — 9,282 of them identified as healthcare workers.
But while this suggests that overall only 3 percent of the confirmed cases were among health care workers, the CDC also stressed that in states with more complete accounting of whether the case was a health care worker, those in the field accounted for 11 percent of cases.
Still, more than 80 percent of the records reviewed did not indicate if the patient worked in the health field, the organization noted, meaning the true number is likely much higher.
In addition, CNN also noted that the CDC’s estimate of total cases is far fewer the more than 460,000 people recorded by Johns Hopkins University during the same timeframe.
About 90 percent of health care workers in the CDC’s report had not been hospitalized, while 184 were in intensive care units and 27 had died from the virus.
CDC officials said this proves that an analysis of the pathogen’s impact on health care professions is vital as they continue to battle the pandemic.
“It is critical to make every effort to ensure the health and safety of this essential national workforce of approximately 18 million HCP [health care personnel], both at work and in the community,” the agency’s report said.
“Surveillance is necessary for monitoring the impact of COVID-19-associated illness and better informing the implementation of infection prevention and control measures. Improving surveillance through routine reporting of occupation and industry not only benefits HCP, but all workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Meanwhile, the Johns Hopkins number ballooned to more than 630,000 by Wednesday afternoon — meaning the US currently makes up almost a third of the more than 2 million confirmed cases globally.
By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
April 15, 2020 | 6:13pm
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Nurse Elizabeth Moyano at St. Mary's General Hospital in New Jersey Matthew McDermott
At least 9,200 health care workers in the US have been infected by the coronavirus since the outbreak of the deadly pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.
That number is likely an underestimate as most COVID-19 infection reports don’t identify whether the patient worked in the health field, [url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e6.htm?s_cid=mm6915e6_w]the CDC noted in its first look at the impact on the country’s medical professionals.
The national public health agency said it scoured data from all 50 states between Feb. 12 and April 9 and came up with 315,531 confirmed coronavirus cases — 9,282 of them identified as healthcare workers.
But while this suggests that overall only 3 percent of the confirmed cases were among health care workers, the CDC also stressed that in states with more complete accounting of whether the case was a health care worker, those in the field accounted for 11 percent of cases.
Still, more than 80 percent of the records reviewed did not indicate if the patient worked in the health field, the organization noted, meaning the true number is likely much higher.
In addition, CNN also noted that the CDC’s estimate of total cases is far fewer the more than 460,000 people recorded by Johns Hopkins University during the same timeframe.
About 90 percent of health care workers in the CDC’s report had not been hospitalized, while 184 were in intensive care units and 27 had died from the virus.
CDC officials said this proves that an analysis of the pathogen’s impact on health care professions is vital as they continue to battle the pandemic.
“It is critical to make every effort to ensure the health and safety of this essential national workforce of approximately 18 million HCP [health care personnel], both at work and in the community,” the agency’s report said.
“Surveillance is necessary for monitoring the impact of COVID-19-associated illness and better informing the implementation of infection prevention and control measures. Improving surveillance through routine reporting of occupation and industry not only benefits HCP, but all workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Meanwhile, the Johns Hopkins number ballooned to more than 630,000 by Wednesday afternoon — meaning the US currently makes up almost a third of the more than 2 million confirmed cases globally.
, không những ICU mà unit nào cũng có bịnh nhân, nhất là những người đang điều trị ung thư.
