Health care workers' COVID infections driven mainly by community exposure

(Northwestern University) In a well-resourced health system with adequate PPE, health care worker risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection was more strongly driven by community exposure than patient exposure early in the pandemic, reports a new study. The study of 6,510 health care workers is the largest systematically collected cohort study of health care worker risk for SARS CoV-2 in the U.S. Nurses were the only occupation group with higher risks once community exposure was accounted for.