Personnel protection strategy for healthcare workers in Wuhan during the COVID-19 epidemic

作     者：Fan Fan Hou Fuling Zhou Xin Xu Daowen Wang Gang Xu Tao Jiang Sheng Nie XiaoyanWu Chanjun Ren Guangyu Wang Johnson Yiu-Nam Lau Xinghuan Wang Kang Zhang 

作者机构：Nanfang HospitalSouthern Medical UniversityNational Clinical Research Center for Kidney DiseaseState Key Laboratory of Organ Failure ResearchGuangzhou 510515China Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan UniversityWuhan 430000China Tongji HospitalHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan 430030China Jingzhou Central HospitalJingzhou 434020China Wuhan Kingmed Medical LaboratoryWuhanChina Department of Computer Science and TechnologyTsinghua UniversityBeijing 100084China Department of Applied Biology and Chemical TechnologyHong Kong Polytechnic UniversityHung HomHong KongChina Center for Biomedicine and InnovationsFaculty of MedicineMacao University of Science and TechnologyMacaoChina 

出 版 物：《Precision Clinical Medicine》 (精准临床医学（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第3卷第3期

页      面：169-174页

学科分类：0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 

基　　金：This work is supported by the Clinical Innovation Research Program of Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory(Grants No.2018GZR0201003 and 2020GZR110306001) the National Innovation Team Program(Grant No.81521003) Recruitment Program of Leading Talent in Guangdong Province(Grant No.2016LJ06Y375),and a Macao FDCT(Grant No.0035/2020/A) 

主　　题：COVID-19 healthcare workers personal protective equipment(PPE) 

摘      要：Objective:To identify the effectiveness of a personnel protection strategy in protection of healthcare workers from SARS-CoV-2 ***:During the COVID-19 pandemic,943 healthcare staff sent from Guangzhou to Wuhan to care for patients with suspected/confirmed COVID-19 received infection precaution training before their mission and were equipped with Level 2/3 personal protective equipment(PPE),in accordance with guidelines from the National Health Commission of *** conducted a serological survey on the cumulative attack rate of SARS-CoV-2 among the healthcare workers sent to Wuhan and compared the seropositive rate to that in local healthcare workers from Wuhan and ***:Serial tests for SARS-CoV-2 RNA and tests for SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin M and G after the 6-8 week mission revealed a zero cumulative attack *** the local healthcare workers inWuhan and Jingzhou of Hubei Province,2.5%(113 out of 4495)and 0.32%(10 out of 3091)had RT-PCR confirmed COVID-19,*** seropositivity for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies(IgG,IgM,or both IgG/IgM positive)was 3.4%(53 out of 1571)in local healthcare workers from Wuhan with Level 2/3 PPE working in isolation areas and 5.4%(126 out of 2336)in healthcare staff with Level 1 PPE working in non-isolation medical areas,*** and relevance:Our study confirmed that adequate training/PPE can protect medical personnel against SARS-CoV-2.