A study recently presented today at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Conference 2022 (SHEA) was one of the first to use hospital records to examine COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths by occupation. To fill what they saw as a gap in data, the investigators utilized hospitalization data from a large, rural community hospital in Southern California

The retrospective cross-sectional study analyzed COVID-19 patients from March 1-July 31, 2020. The investigators, led by study presenter Theressa U. Perez, MPH, examined demographic characteristics of patients positive for COVID-19, including age, sex, race, ethnicity, and length of stay. They also took epidemiological risk factors into consideration, such as smoking status, Body Mass Index (BMI), alcohol consumption, and occupation.

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