Tracing COVID-19 Source of Infection Among Health Personnel in a Pediatric Hospital

• Main Authors: Daniela de la Rosa-Zamboni (Author), Fernando Ortega-Riosvelasco (Author), Nadia González-García (Author), Ana Estela Gamiño-Arroyo (Author), Guillermo Alejandro Espinosa-González (Author), Juan Manuel Valladares-Wagner (Author), Araceli Saldívar-Flores (Author), Olivia Aguilar-Guzmán (Author), Juan Carlos Sanchez-Pujol (Author), Briseida López-Martínez (Author), Mónica Villa-Guillén (Author), Israel Parra-Ortega (Author), Lourdes María del Carmen Jamaica-Balderas (Author), Juan José Luis Sienra-Monge (Author), Ana Carmen Guerrero-Díaz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

Health personnel (HP) have been universally recognized as especially susceptible to COVID-19. In Mexico, our home country, HP has one of the highest death rates from the disease. From the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, an office for initial attention for HP and a call center were established at a COVID-19 national reference pediatric hospital, aimed at early detection of COVID-19 cases and stopping local transmission. The detection and call center implementation and operation, and tracing methodology are described here. A total of 1,042 HP were evaluated, with 221 positive cases identified (7.7% of all HP currently working and 26% of the HP tested). Community contagion was most prevalent (46%), followed by other HP (27%), household (14%), and hospitalized patients (13%). Clusters and contact network analysis are discussed. This is one of the first reports that address the details of the implementation process of contact tracing in a pediatric hospital from the perspective of a hybrid hospital with COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 areas.

Item Description

2296-2360
10.3389/fped.2022.897113