Risk of Severe COVID-19 Among Workers and Their Household Members

Thomas M Selden; Terceira A Berdahl

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6249

Risk of Severe COVID-19 Among Workers and Their Household Members

JAMA Intern Med. 2021 Jan 1;181(1):120-122. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2020.6249.

Authors

Thomas M Selden¹, Terceira A Berdahl¹

Affiliation

¹ Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland.

Abstract

This survey study uses prepandemic data to estimate how many adults at increased risk of severe COVID-19 held essential jobs and could not work at home or lived in households with such workers.

MeSH terms

Age Factors
Asthma / epidemiology
COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / transmission
Coronary Disease / epidemiology
Diabetes Mellitus / epidemiology
Family Characteristics
Family*
Humans
Hypertension / epidemiology
Kidney Diseases / epidemiology
Neoplasms / epidemiology
Obesity / epidemiology
Occupational Exposure / statistics & numerical data*
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / epidemiology
Risk
SARS-CoV-2
Severity of Illness Index
Smoking / epidemiology
Teleworking
United States / epidemiology