Health care workers in COVID-19 wards are four times more likely to contract the virus – but from each other, not patients, study finds

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Health care workers who worked in COVID-19 wards were more likely to contract the virus than their peers, a new study finds.

Researchers from Amsterdam University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam analyzed data from each of their university hospitals.

They found that frontline workers interacting with COVID-19 patients were four times more likely to be infected than those in other areas of the medical center.

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