Epidemiological behavior of COVID-19 in teachers and administrators of the University of El Salvador, March 2020 – 2022

Abstract

COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was declared a global pandemic by the WHO on March 11, 2020, and subsequently began to accelerate its spread in America. Objective: To characterize the epidemiological behavior of COVID-19 in teachers and administrators of the University of El Salvador Faculty of Medicine in March 2020 to 2022. Methodology: A quantitative, cross-sectional descriptive approach was used; Since a description of the epidemiological behavior of the COVID-19 disease in the teaching and administrative staff of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of El Salvador was made, the information was collected through a questionnaire in Google forms sent to emails institutional and subsequently the data obtained were downloaded into a Microsoft Excel matrix for processing, classification and analysis. Results: People who suffer from blood pressure and other comorbidities reported having suffered from COVID-19 during the period from March 2020 to March 2022; of which 63 are female and 27 are male. Of the 90 respondents who fell ill, 74 are teachers and 16 are administrators, also detecting that people with blood group O positive and A positive were more affected, where the most relevant symptoms and signs that occurred were fever with or without chills, headache, odynophagia, fatigue, anosmia/ageusia and cough. The incidence rate was 60 per-100 habitants who tested positive for COVID19, with females being the most affected.