Does anyone have any idea / info on what proportion of the infected cases are getting Covid19 inside hospitals? This seems to have been a real issue for previous coronavirus.
I’d say there might be a stark difference between countries / regions in this area. Italian health workers seem to have taken a heavy blow. Also, 79 deaths in Brazil (total: 200) came from only one Hospital chain/ health insurer, which focus on aging customers (so, yeah, maybe it’s just selection bias?).
(Epistemic status: low, but I didin’t find any research on that after 30min, so maybe the hypothesis deserves a bit more of attention?)
South Korea, as always, are a treasure trove on information—they publish details every day which includes major outbreak clusters, some of which are hospitals. Of the non-cult related cases where they have managed to identify the source of the infection, hospital based infections account for 20%. If you include cases where they haven’t identified the source then it’s more like 10% which is probably a fairer reflection as hospital clusters probably mainly do get identified.
(They changed their reporting layout on March 25th and the new version doesn’t quite contain as much information so I’ve based this on the 24th)
Does anyone have any idea / info on what proportion of the infected cases are getting Covid19 inside hospitals? This seems to have been a real issue for previous coronavirus.
I’d say there might be a stark difference between countries / regions in this area. Italian health workers seem to have taken a heavy blow. Also, 79 deaths in Brazil (total: 200) came from only one Hospital chain/ health insurer, which focus on aging customers (so, yeah, maybe it’s just selection bias?).
(Epistemic status: low, but I didin’t find any research on that after 30min, so maybe the hypothesis deserves a bit more of attention?)
South Korea, as always, are a treasure trove on information—they publish details every day which includes major outbreak clusters, some of which are hospitals. Of the non-cult related cases where they have managed to identify the source of the infection, hospital based infections account for 20%. If you include cases where they haven’t identified the source then it’s more like 10% which is probably a fairer reflection as hospital clusters probably mainly do get identified.
(They changed their reporting layout on March 25th and the new version doesn’t quite contain as much information so I’ve based this on the 24th)