Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study

The Lancet Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2020, Pages e475-e483

  Nguyen, Long H ^a,b   Drew, David A ^a   Graham, Mark S ^c   Joshi, Amit D ^a   Guo, Chuan Guo ^a,d   Ma, Wenjie ^a,b   Mehta, Raaj S ^a,b   Warner, Erica T ^a   Sikavi, Daniel R ^a   Lo, Chun Han ^a,b   Kwon, Sohee ^a   Song, Mingyang ^a,b   Mucci, Lorelei A ^b   Stampfer, Meir J ^b,e   Willett, Walter C ^b   Eliassen, A Heather ^b,e   Hart, Jaime E ^b,e   Chavarro, Jorge E ^b,e   Rich Edwards, Janet W ^b,e   Davies, Richard ^f   Capdevila, Joan ^f   Lee, Karla A ^c   Lochlainn, Mary Ni ^c   Varsavsky, Thomas ^c   Sudre, Carole H ^c   Cardoso, M Jorge ^c   Wolf, Jonathan ^f   Spector, Tim D ^c   Ourselin, Sebastien ^c   Steves, Claire J ^c,i   Chan, Andrew T ^a,b,g,h   Albert, Christine M ⁱ   Andreotti, Gabriella ⁱ   Bala, Bijal ⁱ   Balasubramanian, Bijal A ⁱ   Beane Freeman, Laura E ⁱ   Brownstein, John S ⁱ   Bruinsma, Fiona J ⁱ   Coresh, Joe ⁱ   Costa, Rui ⁱ   Cowan, Annie N ⁱ   Deka, Anusila ⁱ   Deming Halverson, Sandra L ⁱ   Elena Martinez, Maria ⁱ   Ernst, Michael E ⁱ   Figueiredo, Jane C ⁱ   Fortuna, Pedro ⁱ   Franks, Paul W ⁱ   Freeman, Laura Beane ⁱ   Gardner, Christopher D ⁱ   Ghobrial, Irene M ⁱ   Haiman, Christopher A ⁱ   Hall, Janet E ⁱ   Kang, Jae H ⁱ   Kirpach, Brenda ⁱ   Koenen, Karestan C ⁱ   Kubzansky, Laura D ⁱ   Lacey,, James V ⁱ   Le Marchand, Loic ⁱ   Lin, Xihong ⁱ   Lutsey, Pam ⁱ   Marinac, Catherine R ⁱ   Martinez, Maria Elena ⁱ   Milne, Roger L ⁱ   Murray, Anne M ⁱ   Nash, Denis ⁱ   Palmer, Julie R ⁱ   Patel, Alpa V ⁱ   Pierce, Eric ⁱ   Robertson, McKaylee M ⁱ   Rosenberg, Lynn ⁱ   Sandler, Dale P ⁱ   Schurman, Shepherd H ⁱ   Sewalk, Kara ⁱ   Sharma, Shreela V ⁱ   Sidey Gibbons, Christopher J ⁱ   Slevin, Liz ⁱ   Smoller, Jordan W ⁱ   Tiirikainen, Maarit I ⁱ   Weiss, Scott T ⁱ   Wilkens, Lynne R ⁱ   Zhang, Feng ⁱ   more..

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f Zoe Global Limited   (United Kingdom)

^g BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^h Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness   (United States)

ⁱ NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROOF OF CONCEPT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACISM; RISK FACTOR; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATION; PANDEMIC; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CORONAVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PANDEMICS; PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85089856258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24682667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30164-X     Document Type: Article

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