Table 1.

Healthcare Worker Cases of Severe COVID-19 Reported in the Media Before March 16, 2020

Case No.	Age, y	Sex	Occupation	Location	Host Factors	Exposure Factors	Ref	Hypothesized Mechanism of Large-Inoculum Exposure
1	29	F	Gastroenterologist	Wuhan, China	None known	Frequent bedside visits to 76 year-old man with suspected COVID-19, had symptoms 5 days later; “took precautions” to protect herself	8	Virus in stool; whether colonoscopy was done was not reported
2	29	F	Nurse	Wuhan, China	None known	Visited families of confirmed cases, teaching how to disinfect their homes; “took precautions” to protect herself	8	Unknown, potentially could have been exposed to large inoculum cleaning stool or other waste in homes of confirmed cases
3	34	M	Ophthalmologist	Wuhan, China	None known	Treated a patient with acute angle-closure glaucoma	9	Sustained, close contact during angle-closure glaucoma procedure
4	40-49	M	ED physician	Washington	None known	“Complied at all times with appropriate PPE procedures”	10, 11	Unknown
5	70	M	ED physician	Paterson, New Jersey	Age	“Leads his institution’s emergency preparedness”	11	Unknown
6	67	M	General practitioner	Varese, Italy	Age	Quoted as saying, “We have run out of masks, but we don’t stop. We are careful, and we go on.”	12	Continued working without PPE

Note. ED, emergency department; PPE, personal protection equipment.