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- Title
Case Report - Possible Manufacturing Workplace Transmission of COVID-19.
- Authors
Murphy, John H.
- Abstract
A COVID-19 cluster was identified in an industrial manufacturing workforce soon after being recalled to the workplace following a furlough period. All cases in the cluster (21/85) were male, worked on one side of the plant, and took breaks and lunch together. All non-cases worked on the opposite side of the plant and similarly took breaks and lunch together. Review of the timing of return from furlough determined that workplace transmission was possible. However, a high percentage of the cases lived in apartment settings where high neighbourhood incidence rates were observed, whereas that was not the case for non-cases. The investigation illustrates the difficulties of distinguishing potential occupational from community transmission.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; EPIDEMICS; INDUSTRIAL hygiene; POLYMERASE chain reaction; WORK environment; MANUFACTURING industries; COMMUNITY-acquired infections; DISEASE incidence; INHALATION injuries; COVID-19; INFECTIOUS disease transmission
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Infection Control / Revue Canadienne de Prévention des Infections, 2020, Vol 35, Issue 3, p123
- ISSN
1183-5702
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36584/CJIC.2020.012