• César Esquivel-Chirino, Yolanda Valero-Princet, Luis Alberto Gaitán-Cepeda, Carlos Hernández-Hernández, Alejandro Macías Hernández, Hugo Laparra-Escareño, José Luis Ventura-Gallegos, Delina Montes-Sánchez, Ambar Lopéz-Macay, Fernando Hernández-Sánchez, William Alves de Oliveira, José Antonio Morales-González, Daniela Carmona-Ruiz, Karol Rosen-Esquivel, and Alejandro Zentella-Dehesa.
• Área de Básicas Médicas, División de Estudios Profesionales, Facultad de Odontología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México 04510, Mexico.
• Medicina (Kaunas). 2021 Dec 10; 57 (12).

AbstractBackground and Objectives: Healthcare workers (HCWs) play important roles in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic and are more likely to become infected with COVID-19. Mexico, among other countries, had a high incidence and prevalence of cases and deaths from this disease. Material and Methods: This retrospective study evaluated the clinical characteristics as well as the geographical distribution of cases, deaths, and active cases of COVID-19 in HCWs and non-HCWs using official information from the Ministry of Health of Mexico. Results: A total of 235,343 cases of COVID-19 were reported in healthcare workers, and 2,094,191 cases were reported in non-healthcare workers. A total of 76.0% of cases in healthcare workers occurred in those who were between 25 and 50 years of age, and 71.4% of deaths occurred in those who were 50 to 69 years of age. Among healthcare workers, the most frequent comorbidities were obesity (15.2%), hypertension (10.9%), and diabetes (6.8%). Nurses were the group with the most cases (39.7%), followed by other healthcare workers (30.6%), physicians (26%), and dentists (1.6%). Physicians were the group with the most deaths (46%), followed by other professionals (30%), nurses (19%), and dentists (3%). Conclusion: These findings are likely the result of healthcare workers in Mexico being at a greater risk of exposure to SARS-CoV-2.

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