Protection of Healthcare Workers Against COVID-19 at a Large Teaching Hospital in Seoul, Korea

Yong Woo Jeon; Eun Suk Park; Sun Jae Jung; Yeon Kim; Jun Yong Choi; Hyeon Chang Kim

doi:10.3349/ymj.2020.61.7.631

Protection of Healthcare Workers Against COVID-19 at a Large Teaching Hospital in Seoul, Korea

Yonsei Med J. 2020 Jul;61(7):631-634. doi: 10.3349/ymj.2020.61.7.631.

Authors

Yong Woo Jeon^#¹, Eun Suk Park^#², Sun Jae Jung¹, Yeon Kim², Jun Yong Choi^{2

3}, Hyeon Chang Kim^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
² Department of Infection Control, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea.
³ Department of Internal Medicine and AIDS Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. [email protected].
⁴ Department of Infection Control, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System, Seoul, Korea. [email protected].

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Thirteen patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) visited a university hospital in Seoul before recognizing their disease infections, causing contact with 184 hospital workers. We classified the patients into four risk levels and provided corresponding management measures. At 31 days after the last event, all screening laboratory results were negative, and no symptoms/signs were reported.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; cross infection; health personnel.

MeSH terms

Asymptomatic Infections
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Clinical Laboratory Techniques
Coronavirus
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control*
Female
Health Personnel / psychology*
Hospitals, Teaching
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / prevention & control*
Male
Occupational Exposure / prevention & control*
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Personal Protective Equipment
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
Republic of Korea / epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2