Healthcare worker infections with the SARS-CoV-2 virus following the inception of an adult COVID-19 intensive care unit
Allanah Baukes A , Alison Brannelly A , Winston Cheung A B C * , Rosalba Cross A , Thomas Gottlieb A B , Timothy Gray A B , Karina Griffiths D , Rhiannon Hunt A , Mark Kol A B , Ying Li A , Genevieve Mckew A B , Anne Mendes A , Asim Shah A B , Katina Skylas A , Gemma Smith A , Atul Wagh A B and Helen Wong AA Concord Repatriation General Hospital, Hospital Road, Concord, Sydney, NSW 2139, Australia.
B Sydney School of Medicine – Concord, University of Sydney, Hospital Road, Concord, NSW 2139, Australia.
C The George Institute for Global Health – Australia, Level 5, 1 King Street, Newtown, NSW 2050, Australia.
D Centre for Education and Workforce Development, Sydney Local Health District, Rozelle Campus, Building 301, Callan Park, Balmain Road, Lilyfield, NSW 2039, Australia.
Australian Health Review 46(2) 251-253 https://doi.org/10.1071/AH21324
Submitted: 8 October 2021 Accepted: 11 October 2021 Published: 28 March 2022
© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of AHHA. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).
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