Inpatient care providers and nursing home workers are at highest risks for inadequate or reuse of PPE, with inpatient providers reporting PPE reuse 23.7% of the time and healthcare workers in nursing homes being the most frequent group to report inadequate supplies of PPE (16.9% of group).

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Compared with healthcare workers using adequate PPE, frontline healthcare workers reporting the reuse of PPE had a 46% increased risk of reporting a positive COVID-19 test, with inadequate PPE associated with a comparable 31% increase

Healthcare workers with reused or inadequate PPE are at a higher risk for contracting COVID-19

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