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Department of Emergency Medicine Heersink School of Medicine

COVID

PREVENT II is a CDC sponsored COVID-19 surveillance project which enrolls health-providers if they test positive or negative for the disease. These data are utilized in ongoing surveillance of vaccine effectiveness against newer COVID-19 strains and to inform the need for vaccination recommendations and health care personnel safety. 
 

Recent Publications
  1. Weber KD, Mower W, Krishnadasan A, Mohr NM, Montoy JC, Rodriguez RM, Giordano PA, Eyck PT, Harland KK, Wallace K, McDonald LC, Kutty PK, Hesse EM, Talan DA; Project COVERED Emergency Department Network. Coronavirus Disease 2019 Infections Among Emergency Health Care Personnel: Impact on Delivery of United States Emergency Medical Care, 2020. Ann Emerg Med. 2024; 84 (1):P40-48. PMID: 38493375.
  2. Schrading W, McCafferty B, Grove J, Page D: Portable, consumer‐grade pulse oximeters are accurate for home and medical use: Implications for use in the COVID‐19 pandemic and other resource‐limited environments, JACEP Open. 10/20/20, doi https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12292
  3. Mohr NM, Harland KK, Krishnadasan A, Eyck PT, Mower WR, Willey J,Chisolm-Straker M, Lim SC, McDonald LC, Kutty PK, Hesse E, Santibanez S, Talan DA, for the Project COVERED Emergency Department Network: Diagnosed and Undiagnosed COVID-19 in US Emergency Department Healthcare Personnel: A Cross-Sectional Analysis, Annals of Emergency Medicine (2021), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2020.12.007.
  4. Rodriguez R, Montoya J, Hoth K, Talan D, Harland K, Eyck P, Mower W, Krishnadasan A, Santibanez S, Mohr N, for the Project COVERED Emergency Department Network, COVID-19-Related Stress Symptoms Among Emergency Department Personnel, Annals Emerg Med (2021), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.01.028.
  5. Schrading W, Trent S, Paxton J, Rodriguez R, Swanson M, Mohr N, Talan D for the Project COVERED Emergency Department Network, Vaccination Rates and Acceptance of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination Among US Emergency Department Health Care Personnel, Acad Emerg Med 2/19/2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/acem.1426
  6. Schrading W, Page D: Portable, Consumer-grade Pulse Oximeters are Accurate for Home and Medical Use: Implications for their Use in COVID-19 Patients, Ann Am Thoracic Soc 2/21/2021. https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1513/AnnalsATS.202012-1555LE
  7. Pilishvili T, Fleming-Dutra KE, Farrar JL, et al: Interim Estimates of Vaccine Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines Among Health Care Personnel – 33 U.S. Sites, January-March 2021. MMWR Morb Moral Wkly Rep 2021;70:753-758. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7020e2
  8. Pilishvili T, Gierke R, Fleming-Dutra, KE, Farrar, J, et al: Effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine among U.S. Health Care Personnel, N Engl J Med Sep 22, 2021 NEJM.org, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2106599
  9. Mohr NM, Krishnadasan A, Harland KK, Eyck PT, Mower W, Schrading WA, Montoy JC, McDonald LC, Kutty PK, Hesse E, Santibanez S, Weissman DN, Slev P, Talan DA for the Project COVERED Emergency Department Network. Emergency department personnel patient care-related COVID-19 risk. PLOS One. July 22, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271597
  10. Mohr NM, Plumb ID, Harland KK et al for the Project Prevent Network. Presence of symptoms 6 weeks after COVID-19 among vaccinated and unvaccinated US healthcare personnel: a prospective cohort study. BMJ Open. 2023 Feb 2;13(2) e063141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063141
  11. Plumb ID, Mohr NM, Hagen M et al. Effectiveness of a Messenger RNA Vaccine Booster Dose Against Coronavirus Disease 2019 Among US Healthcare Personnel, October 2021–July 2022. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Vol 10, Issue 10, October 2023 https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofad457
  12. Mohr NM, Plumb ID, Santos León E, Harland KK, Krishnadasan A, Nandi U, Hoth KF, Smithline HA, Talan DA, PREVENT Investigators. Factors associated with the decision to receive bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccination among health care personnel Hum Vaccin Immunother. Volume 19 Issue 3,2023. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2023.2284471
  13. Baymon DE, Vakkalanka JP, Krishnadasan A, Mohr NM, Talan DA, Hagen MB, Wallace K, Harland KK, Aisiku IP, Hou PC; Preventing Emerging Infections Through Vaccine Effectiveness Testing (PREVENT) project. Race, Ethnicity, and Delayed Time to COVID-19 Testing Among US Health Care Workers. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Apr 1;7(4):e245697. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.5697. PMID: 38598239; PMCID: PMC11007575.

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