Infection and Severity of COVID-19 Infection Among Healthcare Workers: A Report from Egypt

Backgrounds & Aim: Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is a severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by Coronavirus 2. Knowledge of the fate of infection and risk factors among health care workers are essential to enforce special infection control measures. We aimed to determine the percentage of COVID-19 infection and risk factors associated and predictors of COVID-19 among health care workers in Assiut University Hospital.A cross-sectional study that included one hundred health care workers with confirmed by PCR to be COVID-19 cases admitted in Assiut university hospital over six months between May 2020 and November 2020. All participants subjected to thorough history taking and full clinical examination as well as investigations.Out of the 100 HCWs enrolled in study, 52% were males, 26% were obese, and 68% were doctors & 38% from medical department. Fourteen percentage of healthcare workers were admitted to ICU, of them 93% cured. The predictors for severity of cases were being a doctor OR (6.804) P=0.037, old age OR (1.179) P=0.000 & hospital stay OR (0.838) P=0.015.Health care workers are at-risk for severe COVID-19 infection. Being a doctor, old age, and duration of hospitalization were the predictors for severity of cases of health care workers.