Among hospital workers who caught COVID-19, the people most likely to still be sick months later were not the doctors. They were the nurse assistants.
That is the central finding of new research in BMC Public Health, which analyzed occupational health registry data from 8,441 healthcare workers diagnosed with COVID-19 at three public hospitals between 2020 and 2023. At all three sites, nurse assistants most consistently showed higher long COVID rates than physicians.
