Healthcare Workers’ SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Four Hospital Outbreaks during Delta Variant Prevalence in Sydney, Australia
Table 2
Inclusion and exclusion criteria and results.
Inclusion criteria
Included HCW clusters
Two or more HCWs in the same cluster were infected within a one-week period. Complete information about the hospital, the number of HCW infected with documented transmission occurring at the workplace, dates, and the ward type, in the week/s following an increase in community transmission, determined by the designation of LGA of concern
Hospital A (n = 7) Hospital B (n = 2) Hospital C (n = 8) Hospital D (n = 3)
Exclusion criteria
Excluded
No information about workplace transmission, less than 2 HCW infected, and no information about ward type
Hospital E: 24 patients and five staff members were infected across six separate wards (n = 5) in an epidemiological week. No information about workplace transmission [15] Hospital F: one patient and one HCW (n = 1) [16]
