According to research published in the journal PLOS ONE, infections in healthcare workers can serve as an accurate sample representing the general population. Such data could therefore be used to aid the estimation of the severity of virus outbreaks. The study involved analysis of infection data from healthcare workers over different countries, including Ireland, Germany, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Iceland. The scientists also studied the progression of the first wave of COVID-19 in Ireland with the help of the daily infection numbers reported.
Computer models were used to analyze disease progression in different countries. The healthcare workers in Ireland constituted 31.6% of all the positive cases and 3% of the total population. It was found that the data obtained from healthcare workers was closely associated with that of the total population. The results indicate that the…
