Dental hygienist survey suggests 3% contracted COVID-19A survey of US registered dental hygienists reported that 3.1% had been diagnosed as having COVID-19 as of October 2020, according to a Journal of Dental Hygiene study published yesterday.
At the time, the study says an estimated 2.3% of the general US population had been infected.The researchers asked for survey responses from the American Dental Hygienists' Association database between Sep 29 and Oct 8, 2020.
Of the 4,776 who answered, 35.4% had been tested for COVID-19 at least once, and 23 had been diagnosed by a physician, resulting in a 3.1% rate of infection.