Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) surface contamination in staff common areas and impact on healthcare worker infection: Prospective surveillance during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

Helen L Zhang Brendan J Kelly Michael Z David Ebbing Lautenbach Elizabeth Huang Selamawit Bekele Pam Tolomeo Emily Reesey Sean Loughrey David Pegues Matthew J Ziegler

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Published: January 2023

Researchers conducted a survey to check for SARS-CoV-2 RNA contamination in common areas used by staff in a hospital.
They found that the levels of contamination on surfaces increased over time.
However, despite the contamination, they discovered that the proportion of contaminated surfaces did not correlate with the COVID-19 infection rates among healthcare workers on those units.

We prospectively surveyed SARS-CoV-2 RNA contamination in staff common areas within an acute-care hospital. An increasing prevalence of surface contamination was detected over time. Adjusting for patient census or community incidence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the proportion of contaminated surfaces did not predict healthcare worker COVID-19 infection on study units.

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