Access to personal protective equipment in exposed healthcare workers and COVID-19 illness, severity, symptoms and duration: a population-based case-control study in six countries.

In general, these associations were statistically significant in the USA, UK, Spain and Italy but did not reach statistical significance in Germany and France independently. 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004611.supp1 Supplementary data HCWs were more likely to report greater than 14 days of symptoms (p=0.004) and moderate-to-severe symptoms (p=0.006) with poor access to PPE relative to excellent access to PPE even after multivariable adjustment including comorbidities ( table 4 ).

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