2020, Number 6
Frontline doctors infected with COVID-19 during a hospital outbreak in Veracruz, Mexico
Del Carpio-Orantes L, Garcés-García E, Ortiz-Espinoza C, Torres-Sánchez JL, López-Varela LD, Pascual-Epigmenio S, Márquez-Rodríguez LA, Dorantes-Nava CL
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ABSTRACT
Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected health workers, some estimates mention more than 90,000 affected, even with deaths throughout the world.Objective: To determine the number of physicians of first care of patients with COVID- 19 that were infected, their risk factors and their clinical manifestations.
Material and Method: A descriptive, analytical and cross-sectional study performed from April 1 to May 31, 2020 analyzing the cases of front-line doctors infected with COVID-19 in the General Hospital 71 Lic. Benito Coquet Lagunes of the city and port of Veracruz, dependent on the Mexican Institute of Social Security.
Results: Seven doctors were entered into the study, with an average age of 42.4 years, all of them male. The identified risk factors were overweight/obesity (85.7%), previous viral infections (42.8%), diabetes (28.5%), hypertension, dyslipidemia and drug addiction (14.2% each). The main symptoms/signs were: fever (100%), myalgia/ arthralgia (71.4%), cough (57.1%), chest pain (57.1%), anosmia/dysgeusia (42.8%) and attack on the general state (42.8%).
Conclusions: The present cohort of doctors affected by COVID during a hospital outbreak shows that there are several factors to take into account, on the one hand, factors specific to the population (obesity, diabetes, hypertension), as well as the institutions that are in charge of medical personnel; they must identify the risk factors mentioned, influence them and protect this population that is vulnerable per se to a pandemic.
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