A call to protect non-clinical frontliners in the fight against COVID-19: evidence from a seroprevalence study in the Philippines.
Nimfa Putong;
Kristal An Agrupis 
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Annavi Marie Villanueva;
Shuichi Suzuki;
Ana Ria Sayo;
Efren Dimaano;
Ferdinand de Guzman;
Ruel Teaño;
Mary Jane Salazar;
Jan Wendzl Evangelista;
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Alexis Dimapilis;
Jose Benito Villarama;
Koya Ariyoshi;
Kensuke Takahashi;
Chris Smith ;
(2022)
A call to protect non-clinical frontliners in the fight against COVID-19: evidence from a seroprevalence study in the Philippines.
The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 18.
100353-.
ISSN 2666-6065
DOI: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2021.100353
;
Annavi Marie Villanueva;
Shuichi Suzuki;
Ana Ria Sayo;
Efren Dimaano;
Ferdinand de Guzman;
Ruel Teaño;
Mary Jane Salazar;
Jan Wendzl Evangelista;
+5 more...
Alexis Dimapilis;
Jose Benito Villarama;
Koya Ariyoshi;
Kensuke Takahashi;
Chris Smith ;
(2022)
A call to protect non-clinical frontliners in the fight against COVID-19: evidence from a seroprevalence study in the Philippines.
The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 18.
100353-.
ISSN 2666-6065
DOI: 10.1016/j.lanwpc.2021.100353
Since the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, healthcare workers (HCW) and other hospital personnel have been regarded as “frontliners”, and at increased risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection compared to the general population. As such, testing only symptomatic individuals or regular testing of HCWs who directly attend to COVID-19 patients or specimens may underestimate the extent of infection, and actual SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence. Because of this, the World Health Organization has called for seroepidemiological surveys to assess the extent of infection amongst HCW and other populations to provide timely estimates of COVID-19 virus infection severity and inform public health responses and evidence-based policy decisions.
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