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Assessing COVID-19 Risks among Egyptian Healthcare Workers: Incidence, Reinfection, and Vaccination Insights: A Retrospective Study

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Last updated: 09 Apr 2025

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Background: The onset of COVID-19 has posed significant hurdles for both public health and the global economy. The most effective strategy for managing the outbreak lies in the widespread embrace of vaccination. Numerous COVID-19 vaccines have been created and approved for deployment across different parts of the world. Objective: Identifying instances of COVID-19 infection and reinfection, analyzing the factors contributing to these occurrences, and assessing the vaccination status and potential side effects among healthcare workers. Methodology: This cross-sectional study involved healthcare workers from a university Hospitals. The questionnaire comprised four sections: participant demographics, initial COVID-19 infection, COVID-19 reinfection, and vaccination status. Results: Healthcare workers faced elevated risks of both initial infection (46.4%) and reinfection (29.2%) due to potential transmission within the healthcare setting, as well as from patients and the wider community. Reinfection cases typically exhibited more severe symptoms compared to initial infections, leading to increased rates of hospitalization and intensive care unit admissions (p value <0.001). AstraZeneca (24.6%), Pfizer (23.8%), Sinopharm (20.9%), and Sinovac (20.2%) emerged as the most administered vaccines. Non-vaccinated participants faced heightened susceptibility to COVID-19 infection, experienced more severe symptoms, and were more likely to require hospitalization. Following vaccination, side effects were more commonly reported with Johnson & Johnson (47.6%%) and Sputnik vaccines (46.7%%), typically manifesting within the first day and lasting one to three days.
Conclusions: Understanding the risk factors for COVID-19 infection and reinfection is crucial for developing effective prevention strategies, especially among healthcare workers who face heightened exposure.

DOI

10.21608/ejmm.2025.359598.1471

Keywords

COVID-19, Health Care Workers, Vaccination, Health personnel

Authors

First Name

Heba

Last Name

Abdel Aziz

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Clinical and Chemical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

dr_heba87@cu.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0009-0004-2024-8748

First Name

Reham

Last Name

Hamed

MiddleName

M.R.

Affiliation

Medical Microbiology and Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

rehamraafat1986@yahoo.com

City

giza

Orcid

0000-0002-5526-2134

First Name

Sara

Last Name

Abd El-Ghani,

MiddleName

E.

Affiliation

Internal Medicine Department, Clinical Hematology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

sara.elsayed@kasralainy.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0003-3619-3740

First Name

Hadeel

Last Name

Hassanen

MiddleName

A.M.

Affiliation

Chest Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

hadeel_116@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-7070-1027

First Name

Reham

Last Name

Abdelmageed

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Endemic Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

reham.moniem@kasralainy.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-2009-9488

First Name

Soliman

Last Name

Soliman

MiddleName

B.

Affiliation

Critical Care Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

solimanbelal@kasralainy.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0003-2506-3473

First Name

Ghada

Last Name

El-Sherif

MiddleName

H.

Affiliation

Occupational and Environmental Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

ghadaelsherief@kasralainy.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0003-1798-6331

First Name

Radwa

Last Name

ElSayed

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Family Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

radwamohammed@kasralainy.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-3219-3703

First Name

Mostafa

Last Name

Abdelmoneim

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Undergraduate student in Kasr Alainy Medical School, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

mostafa_a_abdelmoneim@students.kasralainy.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Shehab

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

M.K.

Affiliation

Undergraduate student in Kasr Alainy Medical School, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

sn732880@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Sohaila

Last Name

Abdelbar

MiddleName

M.M.

Affiliation

Undergraduate student in Kasr Alainy Medical School, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

suhaila-m-abdelbar@students.kasralainy.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Abdelhameed

Last Name

Elshenawy,

MiddleName

M.A.

Affiliation

Care and Emergency Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

abdlhameed_mahros@cu.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0009-0008-3936-5695

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Elgendy

MiddleName

O.

Affiliation

Clinical Pharmacy Department, Beni-Suef University Hospitals, Faculty of Medicine, Beni-Suef University; Clinical Pharmacy Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nahda University, Beni-Suef, Egypt

Email

marwa.elgendy@nub.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0002-5466-0552

First Name

Amira

Last Name

Abbas

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Clinical and Chemical Pathology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Email

amira.muhammad@kasralainy.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

0000-0001-8738-3865

Volume

34

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

51523

Issue Date

2025-04-01

Receive Date

2025-02-10

Publish Date

2025-04-01

Page Start

345

Page End

359

Print ISSN

1110-2179

Online ISSN

2537-0979

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EJMM_Volume 34_Issue 2_Pages 345-359.pdf

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Egyptian Journal of Medical Microbiology

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Assessing COVID-19 Risks among Egyptian Healthcare Workers: Incidence, Reinfection, and Vaccination Insights: A Retrospective Study

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09 Mar 2025