What percentage of COVID-19 cases are contracted during a hospital stay as a patient?
I read on www.20minutes.fr/arts-stars/culture/2759843-20200413-coronavirus-comedien-maurice-barrier-mort-covid-19 (mirror):
Le comédien Maurice Barrier est mort du Covid-19. [Il] a attrapé le coronavirus lors d’un séjour à l’hôpital, selon son entourage
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Comedian Maurice Barrier died of the Covid-19. [He] caught the coronavirus during a hospital stay, according to his entourage.
What percentage of COVID-19 cases are contracted during a hospital stay as a patient?
A few studies have looked at the percentage of COVID-19 cases contracted by medical workers, e.g. www.opb.org/news/article/coronavirus-covid-19-data-health-care-medical-workers-infection/:
Ohio, on the other hand, reported at least 16% of its cases involved health care workers, while in Minnesota, it was 28% on Wednesday.
Other countries are reporting COVID-19’s impact on their health care community. Spain has said at least 12,298 health care workers have tested positive for the disease – 14.4% of the total reported cases. More than 60 doctors have died in Italy.
This number can be high due to PPE shortage, e.g. www.theverge.com/2020/3/5/21166088/coronavirus-covid-19-protection-doctors-nurses-health-workers-risk:
Less than a third of nurses in the US work at health care facilities with enough PPE to handle an outbreak of COVID-19, according to a survey from the union National Nurses United.
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