Symptom Screening at Illness Onset of Health Care Personnel With SARS-CoV-2 Infection in King County, Washington

Eric J Chow; Noah G Schwartz; Farrell A Tobolowsky; Rachael L T Zacks; Melinda Huntington-Frazier; Sujan C Reddy; Agam K Rao

doi:10.1001/jama.2020.6637

Symptom Screening at Illness Onset of Health Care Personnel With SARS-CoV-2 Infection in King County, Washington

JAMA. 2020 May 26;323(20):2087-2089. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.6637.

Authors

Eric J Chow¹, Noah G Schwartz¹, Farrell A Tobolowsky¹, Rachael L T Zacks¹, Melinda Huntington-Frazier², Sujan C Reddy³, Agam K Rao³

Affiliations

¹ Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.
² Public Health-Seattle and King County, Seattle, Washington.
³ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID-19 Emergency Response, Atlanta, Georgia.

Abstract

This study assessed the spectrum of initial symptoms at the onset of polymerase chain reaction–confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among health care personnel in King County, Washington.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Clinical Laboratory Techniques*
Coronavirus Infections / complications
Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
Cough / etiology
Dyspnea / etiology
Female
Fever / etiology
Health Personnel*
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Myalgia / etiology
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / complications
Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
SARS-CoV-2
Symptom Assessment*
Washington
Young Adult