1. Telework Before Illness Onset Among Symptomatic Adults Aged ≥18 Years With and Without COVID-19 in 11 Outpatient Health Care Facilities — United States, July 2020
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Fisher, Kiva A., Olson, Samantha M., Tenforde, Mark W., Feldstein, Leora R., Lindsell, Christopher J., Shapiro, Nathan I., Files, D. Clark, Gibbs, Kevin W., Erickson, Heidi L., Prekker, Matthew E., Steingrub, Jay S., Exline, Matthew C., Henning, Daniel J., Wilson, Jennifer G., Brown, Samuel M., Peltan, Ithan D., Rice, Todd W., Hager, David N., Ginde, Adit A., Talbot, H. Keipp, Casey, Jonathan D., Grijalva, Carlos G., Flannery, Brendan, Patel, Manish M., Self, Wesley H., Hart, Kimberly W., McClellan, Robert, Tan, Hsi-nien, Baughman, Adrienne, Hennesy, Nora A., Grear, Brittany, Wu, Michael, Mlynarczyk, Kristin, Marzano, Luc, Plata, Zuwena, Caplan, Alexis, Ogokeh, E., Smith, Emily R., Kim, Sara S., Griggs, Eric P., Richards, Bridget, Robinson, Sonya, Kim, Kaylee, Kassem, Ahmed M., Sciarratta, Courtney N., and Marcet, Paula L.
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Adult ,Male ,Work ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Health (social science) ,Adolescent ,Epidemiology ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Pneumonia, Viral ,MEDLINE ,Ambulatory Care Facilities ,01 natural sciences ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Health Information Management ,Pandemic ,Health care ,medicine ,Humans ,Full Report ,030212 general & internal medicine ,0101 mathematics ,Young adult ,Pandemics ,business.industry ,010102 general mathematics ,Case-control study ,COVID-19 ,General Medicine ,Odds ratio ,Middle Aged ,United States ,Confidence interval ,Test (assessment) ,Case-Control Studies ,Family medicine ,Telecommunications ,Female ,Symptom Assessment ,Coronavirus Infections ,business - Abstract
Since March 2020, large-scale efforts to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), have continued. Mitigation measures to reduce workplace exposures have included work site policies to support flexible work site options, including telework, whereby employees work remotely without commuting to a central place of work.* Opportunities to telework have varied across industries among U.S. jobs where telework options are feasible (1). However, little is known about the impact of telework on risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection. A case-control investigation was conducted to compare telework between eligible symptomatic persons who received positive SARS-CoV-2 reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test results (case-patients, 153) and symptomatic persons with negative test results (control-participants, 161). Eligible participants were identified in outpatient health care facilities during July 2020. Among employed participants who reported on their telework status during the 2 weeks preceding illness onset (248), the percentage who were able to telework on a full- or part-time basis was lower among case-patients (35%; 42 of 120) than among control-participants (53%; 68 of 128) (p
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- 2020
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