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Revista Cubana de Salud y Trabajo 2022; 23 (3)

Clinical-epidemiological particularities of COVID-19 affected workers from ''Eduardo Agramonte Piña'' hospital of Camagüey

Rodríguez PR, Dueñas RY, Pérez DY, Rodríguez AOC

Language: Spanish
References: 29
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The health workers are one of the most prone to becoming infected with COVID-19, due to their exposure during their relationship with patients. Objective: To determine the clinical and epidemiological char-acteristics of COVID-19 in workers of the Pediatric Hospital of Camagüey in the period from January to December 2021. Methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in a universe of 238 workers with a polymerase chain reac-tion–confirmed diagnosis during the aforementioned period; registered in a database. The variables studied included age group, sex, occupational category, service of origin, clinical manifestations, quarter of the year, and possible source of infec-tion. The data were processed using the statistical program SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences), version 25.0, on a Pentium IV computer. Informed consent and the bioethical principles of confidentiality of information were taken into account in the research. Results: The female sex predominated (54.7%) at ages 50-59 years. They were mostly nursing staff (29.4%), infected during the third trimester (39.9%) in the community (59.3%), present-ing symptoms such as nasal discharge (32.8%) and fever (17.6%), working in the pediatric medicine wards (28.2%). Conclusions: Despite the difficult epidemiological situation, the main source of infection was the community. There were no institutional transmission events and there were no deaths.


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