40% Of Health Care Workers Who Test Positive For COVID-19 Show No Symptoms At Diagnosis; Nurses Are 58% Of Those Who Test Positive

Approximately 40% of health care workers who test positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 or SARSCoV-2) show no symptoms at the time of diagnosis, and about 58% of those who test positive are nurses, followed by physicians (25%) and other health care workers (23%). About 43% of the COVID-19 positive medical personnel were working in hospitalization or non-emergency wards during the screening, according to a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

The choice to screen workers based only on the symptoms of fever, cough, shortness of breath, and sore throat may have miss a . . .