• eLife · Jun 2020

    Effective control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission between healthcare workers during a period of diminished community prevalence of COVID-19.

    • 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, CITIID-NIHR COVID-19 BioResource Collaboration, Stephen Baker, John Bradley, Gordon Dougan, Ian Goodfellow, Ravi Gupta, Paul J Lehner, Paul A Lyons, Nicholas J Matheson, Kenneth Gc Smith, M Estee Torok, Mark Toshner, Michael P Weekes, Nicholas K Jones, Iain Kean, Sarah Caddy, Laura Caller, Theresa Feltwell, Grant Hall, William Hamilton, Myra Hosmillo, Charlotte Houldcroft, Aminu Jahun, Fahad Khokhar, Luke Meredith, Anna Yakovleva, Helen Butcher, Daniela Caputo, Debra Clapham-Riley, Helen Dolling, Anita Furlong, Barbara Graves, Le Gresley Emma E, Nathalie Kingston, Sofia Papadia, Hannah Stark, Kathleen E Stirrups, Jennifer Webster, Joanna Calder, Julie Harris, Sarah Hewitt, Jane Kennet, Anne Meadows, Rebecca Rastall, Criona O Brien, Jo Price, Cherry Publico, Jane Rowlands, Valentina Ruffolo, Hugo Tordesillas, Greg Hannon, Karen Brookes, Laura Canna, Isabel Cruz, Katie Dempsey, Anne Elmer, Naidine Escoffery, Stewart Fuller, Heather Jones, Carla Ribeiro, Caroline Saunders, Angela Wright, Rutendo Nyagumbo, Anne Roberts, Ashlea Bucke, Simone Hargreaves, Danielle Johnson, Aileen Narcorda, Debbie Read, Christian Sparke, Lucy Worboys, Kirsty Lagadu, Lenette Mactavous, Tim Gould, Tim Raine, Ashley Shaw, Claire Mather, Nicola Ramenatte, Anne-Laure Vallier, Mary Kasanicki, Penelope-Jane Eames, Lisa Thake, Neil Bartholomew, Nick Brown, Martin Curran, Surendra Parmar, Hongyi Zhang, Ailsa Bowring, Geraldine Martell, Natalie Quinnell, Giles Wright, Jo Wright, Helen Murphy, Benjamin J Dunmore, Ekaterina Legchenko, Stefan Gräf, Christopher Huang, Josh Hodgson, Kelvin Hunter, Jennifer Martin, Federica Mescia, Ciara ODonnell, Linda Pointon, Joy Shih, Rachel Sutcliffe, Tobias Tilly, Zhen Tong, Carmen Treacy, Jennifer Wood, Laura Bergamaschi, Ariana Betancourt, Georgie Bowyer, Aloka De Sa, Maddie Epping, Andrew Hinch, Oisin Huhn, Isobel Jarvis, Daniel Lewis, Joe Marsden, Simon McCallum, Francescsa Nice, Ommar Omarjee, Marianne Perera, Nika Romashova, Mateusz Strezlecki, Natalia Savoinykh Yarkoni, Lori Turner, Barrie Bailey, Afzal Chaudhry, Rachel Doughton, Chris Workman, Caroline Trotter, William David, Cordova Jiménez, Fatima Nb Samad, Martin D Curran, John R Bradley, Gregory J Hannon, and Ian G Goodfellow.
    • Department of Infectious Diseases, Cambridge University NHS Hospitals Foundation Trust, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
    • Elife. 2020 Jun 19; 9.

    AbstractPreviously, 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'. These data demonstrate how infection prevention and control measures including staff testing may help prevent hospitals from becoming independent 'hubs' of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, and illustrate how, with appropriate precautions, organizations in other sectors may be able to resume on-site work safely.© 2020, Jones et al.

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