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Prevalence of Flu-like Symptoms and COVID-19 in Healthcare Workers from India.

Sujeet Jha1, Aakriti Soni1, Samreen Siddiqui1, Nitish Batra1, Nikita Goel1, Sneha Dey1, Sandeep Budhiraja2, Rahul Naithani3.   

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The current COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented. As the numbers expand exponentially, a paucity of data regarding health care workers (HCWs), who are at the forefront of this disaster, exists. Hence we decided to conduct a study amongst the HCWs to determine the prevalence and risk factor stratification.
METHODS: This was an online questionnaire-based survey of healthcare workers conducted at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, New Delhi, India from 23rd March to 30th April 2020. Data on flu-like symptoms, travel history, posting in high-risk or low risk zones, and prophylactic drugs was collected.
RESULTS: Out of the 18000 HCWs who were approached 4403 responded and adequate data of 3667 was available for analysis. 14.7% had flu-like symptoms. 1.8% (20/1113) of the participants tested were positive for the virus. HCWs posted in the high-risk zones had more symptoms than those working in low-risk zones (169/539, 31.4% vs 679/3128, 21.7%), p<0.001; but no difference in COVID-19 positivity rates (p=0.849). Symptomatic HCWs had higher positivity (10/193, 5.2%) than the asymptomatic ones (10/920, 1.1%), p=0.001. HCQ was taken by 755/1113 (67.8%) people and 14 (1.9%) of these reported positive for the virus.
CONCLUSION: This is the first study on healthcare workers from India to the best of our knowledge. Our findings suggest that posting in a high-risk zone with adequate PPE does not pose higher risk to the HCWs. Moreover, HCQ as a prophylactic has no use. CLINICALTRIALS.GOV IDENTIFIER: NCT04339608. © Journal of the Association of Physicians of India 2011.

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Year:  2020        PMID： 32602677

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  J Assoc Physicians India        ISSN： 0004-5772


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