COVID-19 Seroconversion Study Among GHdC Staff Members - Summer 2020

The management of the Grand Hôpital de Charleroi hospital authorized the performance of a serology for each member of the establishment's staff in order to better characterize the proportion of its employees who have already been in contact with the SARS CoV-2 virus for organizational and evaluation purposes symptoms.

At the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, several workers had symptoms compatible with COVID-19 at a time when PCR (smear) testing was only allowed for hospitalized people. In addition, the PCR test has a fairly low sensitivity. In this context, serology can make it possible to determine whether the symptoms are indeed linked to exposure to SARS-CoV-2. As a hospital, and in order to prepare for a possible second epidemic wave, it is also useful to know the proportion of staff members who have already been in contact with the virus for organizational purposes and symptom assessment. .

The hospital has organized several schedules and appointments for each staff member depending on the ability to analyze laboratory samples and blood draws.

Inclusion Criteria: Be a member of the staff of the Grand Hôpital de Charleroi who wishes to participate in order to know their immunity related to SARS CoV-2 after the first wave of pandemic. Exclusion Criteria: Not be part of the staff of the Grand Hôpital de Charleroi.

de Visscher N, Holemans X, Gillain A, Kornreich A, Lagasse R, Piette P, Ventura M, Thys F. SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence among Healthcare Workers after the First and Second Pandemic Waves. Viruses. 2022 Jul 14;14(7):1535. doi: 10.3390/v14071535.