Nick K Jones, Lucy Rivett, Dominic Sparkes, Sally Forrest, Sushmita Sridhar, Jamie Young, Joana Pereira-Dias, Claire Cormie, Harmeet Gill, Nicola Reynolds, Michelle Wantoch, Matthew Routledge, Ben Warne, Jack Levy, William David Córdova Jiménez, Fathima Nisha Begum Samad, Chris McNicholas, Mark Ferris, Jane Gray, Michael Gill, Martin D Curran, Stewart Fuller, Afzal Chaudhry, Ashley Shaw, John R Bradley, Gregory J Hannon, Ian G Goodfellow, Gordon Dougan, Kenneth Gc Smith, Paul J Lehner, Giles Wright, Nicholas J Matheson, Stephen Baker, Michael P Weekes
Previously, we showed that 3% (31/1032)of asymptomatic healthcare workers (HCWs) from a large teaching hospital in Cambridge, UK, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 in April 2020. About 15% (26/169) HCWs with symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) also tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (Rivett et al., 2020). Here, we show that the proportion of both asymptomatic and symptomatic HCWs testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 rapidly declined to near-zero between 25th April and 24th May 2020, corresponding to a decline in patient admissions with COVID-19 during the ongoing UK 'lockdown'...
June 19, 2020: ELife