BMJ: New Coronary Pneumonia Infection Risk Study for British Health Care Workers and Their Families

In the context of the new crown pneumonia pandemic, health care workers are always faced with a higher risk of infection.
researchers recently assessed the risk of coronavirus disease (covid-19) hospitalization in the UK for 2019 among health care workers and their family members.
this study for the National Link Queue Study.
will be held in Scotland from 1 March to 6 June 2020.
health care workers aged 18-65 years and over, as well as their family members, were involved, against the general population.
end of the study was hospitalization for covid-19.
involved 158,445 health care workers, the majority of whom (90,733;57.3%) had direct contact with patients, including 229,905 family members.
17.2 per cent (360/2097) of covid-19 inpatients of all working age groups (18-65 years) were health care workers or members of their families.
After adjusting for age, gender, race, socio-economic and co-disease factors, the risk of hospitalization of health care workers and their family members who were not directly exposed to covid-19 was similar to that of the general population (risk ratios of 0.81 and 0.86, respectively), however, health care workers who were exposed to patients were at higher risk (risk ratio of 3.30) and their family members were at higher risk (1.79).
The risk to front-line workers is higher (risk ratio 2.09) after the patient's health care provider is divided into environmental workers and other personnel who are exposed to aerosols in the "front line", intensive care unit, non-intensive care unit.
For the majority of health care workers and their family members who come into contact with patients, the estimated absolute risk of hospitalization due to covid-19 is less than 0.5%, but in older men with co-merger, the risk is 1% or more.
study found that health care workers and their families accounted for one-half of hospital admissions for neo-crown pneumonia in Scotland, and while the overall risk was manageable, the risk of infection among those who were in direct contact with patients and their families was 2-3 times higher than in the general population.