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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) risk among healthcare workers performing nasopharyngeal testing

Part of: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2021

Kevin L. Schwartz ,
Matthew P. Muller ,
Victoria Williams ,
Robin Harry ,
Sonya Booker ,
Kevin Katz  and
Jerome A. Leis Open the ORCID record for Jerome A. Leis [Opens in a new window]
Kevin L. Schwartz
Affiliation:
Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Matthew P. Muller
Affiliation:
Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Victoria Williams
Affiliation:
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Robin Harry
Affiliation:
North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sonya Booker
Affiliation:
Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Kevin Katz
Affiliation:
North York General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Jerome A. Leis*
Affiliation:
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
Author for correspondence: Jerome A. Leis, E-mail: [email protected]
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , March 2022 , pp. 395 - 397
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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