Hospital-Wide SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Screening in 3056 Staff in a Tertiary Center in Belgium
Deborah Steensels, PharmD, PhD1; Els Oris, MD1; Laura Coninx, MSc, PhD1; et al Dieter Nuyens, MD, PhD1; Marie-Luce Delforge, MD, PhD2; Pieter Vermeersch, MD, PhD3; Line Heylen, MD, PhD1,4
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JAMA. Published online June 15, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.11160
Belgium has a high burden of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), especially the region surrounding the Hospital East-Limburg, a tertiary care center.1 Infection prevention measures were instituted in the hospital beginning March 4, 2020, including testing and contact tracing of all symptomatic patients and staff, changes in hospital operations, and provision of personal protective equipment (PPE). The first case was detected March 13 (Figure 1). We investigated the prevalence of antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) among hospital staff.