Association between Implementation of a Universal Face Mask Policy for Healthcare Workers in a Health Care System & SARS-CoV-2 positivity testing rate in Healthcare Workers

• Published in: Journal of occupational and environmental medicine
• Main Authors: Wang, Dee Dee, O'Neill, William W, Zervos, Marcus J, McKinnon, John E, Allard, David, Alangaden, George J, Schultz, Lonni R, Poisson, Laila M, Chu, Betty S, Kalkanis, Steven N, Suleyman, Geehan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.06.2021

Examine the effect of a universal facemask policy for healthcare workers(HCW) and incidence of SARS-CoV-2 positivity. Daily number of symptomatic HCW tested, SARS-CoV-2 positivity rates, and HCW job-descriptions were collected pre and post Universal HCW facemask policy(March 26). Multiple change poi...