Kurt D Weber, William Mower, Anusha Krishnadasan, Nicholas M Mohr, Juan Carlos Montoy, Robert M Rodriguez, Philip A Giordano, Patrick Ten Eyck, Karisa K Harland, Kelli Wallace, Lawrence Clifford McDonald, Preeta K Kutty, Elisabeth M Hesse, David A Talan
STUDY OBJECTIVE: In the early months of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and before vaccine availability, there were concerns that infected emergency department (ED) health care personnel could present a threat to the delivery of emergency medical care. We examined how the pandemic affected staffing levels and whether COVID-19 positive staff were potentially infectious at work in a cohort of US ED health care personnel in 2020. METHODS: The COVID-19 Evaluation of Risks in Emergency Departments (Project COVERED) project was a multicenter prospective cohort study of US ED health care personnel conducted from May to December 2020...
March 16, 2024: Annals of Emergency Medicine