"Report on situation of COVID-19 in healthcare personnel in Spain", drawn up by Carlos III Health Institute published

This study evaluates demographic, clinical and epidemiological characteristics, as well as the specific features of each case according to its level of seriousness (admitted to hospital on not, taken into intensive care and deaths).

The following are some of the noteworthy results of the "Report on the situation of COVID-19 in healthcare personnel in Spain":

1. 76% of healthcare professionals COVID-19 are women, with an average age of 46 (47 in men).
2. The most frequent symptoms shown by these workers are coughing, fever, shivering and a sore throat. One in every three patients has shown digestive symptoms (diarrhoea or vomiting), which was more frequent in women than in men, together with dyspnoea and a sore throat. In contrast, men more often suffered from a fever.
3. 10.9% of healthcare workers with COVID-19 were taken into hospital, 16.5% developed pneumonia, 1.2% were taken into intensive care and 0.1% died. Men with an underlying condition were more likely than women to develop pneumonia and a higher percentage were taken into hospital, admitted to an ICU and put on mechanical ventilation.
4. 65% of these professionals had an epidemiological background of risk of contact with people with a respiratory infection and 70% of close contact with probable or confirmed cases of COVID-19.
5. Healthcare workers with pneumonia have a significantly higher average age than those who did not catch pneumonia (52 years of age versus 42). The percentage of men out of those with an underlying condition (particularly cardiovascular diseases), and the percentage of those admitted to hospital, put on a mechanical ventilator, admitted to an ICU or that died is significantly higher among those patients that catch pneumonia.
6. Among those taken into intensive care, compared with those admitted to hospital that did not require admission to an ICU, a higher percentage were men, particularly those with an underlying condition, pneumonia or that showed signs of adult respiratory distress syndrome.
7. According to the information available to date, the percentage of fatalities from cases of healthcare personnel with COVID-19 notified to RENAVE stands at 0.1% (35 cases). These results should be interpreted with caution, since those cases without information on this variable have not been considered to be deaths and must be confirmed in later analyses.
8. On a scale of the seriousness of cases that did not require admission to hospital, that did require admission to hospital, were admitted to an ICU and that died, the report observes that the older the patient, the more serious the case. The more serious the case, the higher percentage of men and of patients with underlying conditions. The prevalence of underlying conditions is 30% for those cases that did not require admission to hospital, 50% in the cases of hospital admissions, 66% in cases of admission to intensive care and 82% in those who died. In short, men, elderly patients and those with underlying conditions and risk factors are more represented according to the severity of the case.

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