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Was enough, and is enough, being done to protect the primary care workforce from COVID-19?

Denise Kendrick, Raymond M Agius, John FR Robertson, Herb F Sewell and Marcia Stewart
British Journal of General Practice 2021; 71 (704): 100-101. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp21X714953
Denise Kendrick
University of Nottingham, Nottingham.
Roles: Professor of Primary Care Research
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Raymond M Agius
University of Manchester, Manchester.
Roles: Emeritus Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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John FR Robertson
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton, NHS Foundation Trust; Professor of Surgery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham.
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Herb F Sewell
University of Nottingham, Nottingham.
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Marcia Stewart
De Montfort University, Leicester.
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RISK OF COVID-19 AMONG HEALTHCARE WORKERS

There is clear evidence that healthcare workers (HCWs) are at increased risk of contracting COVID-19. Compared to nonessential workers, HCWs have a seven-fold increase in risk of severe COVID-19 (testing positive in hospital or death).1 Frontline, or patient-facing, HCWs have a three-fold increase in risk of testing positive for COVID-19 compared to the general population.2 Compared to non-patient facing HCWs they have a three-fold risk, and their household members have a two-fold risk of hospital admission with COVID-19.3 COVID-19 risk is also specialty dependent: ‘front-door’ speciality HCWs (A&E, medical specialties including general, acute, and geriatric medicine, and infectious diseases) are at increased risk compared to intensive care HCWs,3 who in some studies had a lower risk than other HCWs.4

AVAILABILITY OF DATA

The only publicly available data on COVID-19-related deaths of doctors in the UK comes from tributes in the medical press, …

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