Assessment of the Burden of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Among Essential Workers in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada

Zain Chagla; Huiting Ma; Beate Sander; Stefan D Baral; Gary Moloney; Sharmistha Mishra

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.30284

Assessment of the Burden of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Among Essential Workers in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada

JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Oct 1;4(10):e2130284. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.30284.

Authors

Zain Chagla^{1

2

3

4}, Huiting Ma¹, Beate Sander^{2

5}, Stefan D Baral⁶, Gary Moloney¹, Sharmistha Mishra^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

Abstract

This cohort study examines the burden of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern among frontline essential workers and by income in the City of Toronto and Region of Peel, Canada.

Publication types

Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology*
Canada / epidemiology
Humans
Income / classification
Occupations*
Pandemics
Residence Characteristics / classification*
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2