AUTHOR=de la Rosa-Zamboni Daniela , Ortega-Riosvelasco Fernando , González-García Nadia , Gamiño-Arroyo Ana Estela , Espinosa-González Guillermo Alejandro , Valladares-Wagner Juan Manuel , Saldívar-Flores Araceli , Aguilar-Guzmán Olivia , Sanchez-Pujol Juan Carlos , López-Martínez Briseida , Villa-Guillén Mónica , Parra-Ortega Israel , Jamaica-Balderas Lourdes María del Carmen , Sienra-Monge Juan José Luis , Guerrero-Díaz Ana Carmen TITLE=Tracing COVID-19 Source of Infection Among Health Personnel in a Pediatric Hospital JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pediatrics VOLUME=10 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pediatrics/articles/10.3389/fped.2022.897113 DOI=10.3389/fped.2022.897113 ISSN=2296-2360 ABSTRACT=

Health personnel (HP) have been universally recognized as especially susceptible to COVID-19. In Mexico, our home country, HP has one of the highest death rates from the disease. From the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, an office for initial attention for HP and a call center were established at a COVID-19 national reference pediatric hospital, aimed at early detection of COVID-19 cases and stopping local transmission. The detection and call center implementation and operation, and tracing methodology are described here. A total of 1,042 HP were evaluated, with 221 positive cases identified (7.7% of all HP currently working and 26% of the HP tested). Community contagion was most prevalent (46%), followed by other HP (27%), household (14%), and hospitalized patients (13%). Clusters and contact network analysis are discussed. This is one of the first reports that address the details of the implementation process of contact tracing in a pediatric hospital from the perspective of a hybrid hospital with COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 areas.