Digital SARS-CoV-2 Detection Among Hospital Employees: Participatory Surveillance Study

Onicio Leal-Neto   ¹ , MSc, PhD ;   Thomas Egger   ² , MSc ;   Matthias Schlegel   ² , MD ;   Domenica Flury   ² , MD ;   Johannes Sumer   ² , MD ;   Werner Albrich   ² , MD ;   Baharak Babouee Flury   ^{2, 3} , MD ;   Stefan Kuster   ⁴ , MD ;   Pietro Vernazza   ² , MD ;   Christian Kahlert   ^{2, 5 *} , MD ;   Philipp Kohler   ^{2 *} , MD

¹ Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

² Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland

³ Medical Research Center, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland

⁴ Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, Switzerland

⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St Gallen, Switzerland

*these authors contributed equally