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- Title
COVID-19 Infections Among General Internal Medicine Faculty at a New York Teaching Hospital: a Descriptive Report.
- Authors
Lee, Jennifer I.; Bullington, Brooke W.; Simon, Matthew S.; Crossman, Daniel J.; Evans, Arthur T.; McNairy, Margaret L.
- Abstract
Within 3 weeks of our hospital's first COVID-19 positive patient, several clinical faculty reported COVID-like illness (CLI) and/or SARS-CoV-2 PCR positivity. Of note, mandatory testing of all admitted patients began on April 4, 2020 The peak incidence of CLI/COVID-19 faculty preceded our hospital's highest COVID-19 inpatient census by nearly 14 days (Fig. General Internal Medicine (GIM) faculty at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine were frontline providers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the disease epicenter of the USA.
- Subjects
NEW York (State); COVID-19; TEACHING hospitals; MEDICAL personnel; INTERNAL medicine
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 4, p1153
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-020-06431-8