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    Health workers have a higher rate of COVID-19 infection than the general population, accounting for 14% of global cases despite being less than 3% of the population. Intensive care staff had a lower infection rate than general medical and housekeeping staff. Nurses and staff working in nonemergency wards are most commonly infected due to lower PPE compliance compared to emergency departments and ICUs. GPs had the highest risk of death among doctors according to a systematic review of COVID-19 infections and mortality in healthcare workers worldwide.

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    Health workers have a higher rate of COVID-19 infection than the general population, accounting for 14% of global cases despite being less than 3% of the population. Intensive care staff had a lower infection rate than general medical and housekeeping staff. Nurses and staff working in nonemergency wards are most commonly infected due to lower PPE compliance compared to emergency departments and ICUs. GPs had the highest risk of death among doctors according to a systematic review of COVID-19 infections and mortality in healthcare workers worldwide.

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    COVID-19

    - WHO: 14% of global covid-19 cases are among health workers whereas they
    represent less than 3 percent of the population 
    - As per a study conducted in Britain intensive care staff had a lower rate of
    infection when compared with general medical and housekeeping staff.
    (Source: Shields A, Faustini SE, Perez-Toledo M, et al. SARS-CoV-2
    seroprevalence and asymptomatic viral carriage in healthcare workers: a cross-
    sectional study.Thorax 2020;75:1089-1094)
    - Health-care workers working in hospital nonemergency wards and nurses
    are the most commonly infected health personnel with COVID-19:
    Metanalysis of 97 studies
    The study suggests that the reason being difference in PPE use across the
    settings; the compliance with PPE is higher in the emergency departments and
    intensive care units (where the subjective risk perception is higher) compared
    with non–COVID-19 wards
    (Source: Gómez-Ochoa SA, Franco OH, Rojas LZ, Raguindin PF, Roa-Díaz ZM et
    al. COVID-19 in Health-Care Workers: A Living Systematic Review and Meta-
    Analysis of Prevalence, Risk Factors, Clinical Characteristics, and
    Outcomes, American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 190, Issue 1, January
    2021, Pages 161–175)

    - GPs were the highest risk specialty for deaths among doctors: Systematic
    Review Finding of 594 records
    (Source: Infection and mortality of healthcare workers worldwide from COVID-
    19: a systematic review. BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e003097)

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