Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Healthcare Workers in a Tertiary Healthcare Center in India - A cross sectional study

Abstract

AbstractNumerous speculations have continually emerged, trying to explore the association between COVID-19 infection and a varied range of demographic and clinical factors. Frontline healthcare workers have been at the forefront of this illness exposure. However, there is a paucity of large cohort-based association studies, performed among Indian health care professionals, exploring their potential risk and predisposing factors. This study aims to systematically utilize the demographic and clinical data of over 3000 healthcare workers from a tertiary hospital in India to gain significant insights on the associations between disease prevalence, severity, and post-infection symptoms.Article SummaryPotential associations between various demographic and clinical factors with disease severity and post COVID syndromes among a large cohort of healthcare workers in India suggest that Smokers were discovered to be more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection because of their immunocompromised lung health and Blood group B, like previous studies, was found to possess an increased risk of predisposition to long COVIDs