NATIONWIDE – The CDC analyzed data looking health care personnel hospitalized with COVID-19 and found that the majority of them are nurses.

The new report out this week looked at data from 98 counties across 13 state for anyone working in a health care setting hospitalized with the novel coronavirus between March 1 and May 31. That included people working in home health settings and occupations like school nurses, not just people working in a hospital.

More than 400 health care workers were identified out of a sample of 6,760 hospitalization cases. About two-thirds were people who worked directly with patients and 36.3% of them were nurses.

Additionally, the analysis found that 90% had some kind of underlying medical condition, with obesity being the most common at 72.5% of the patients.

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The health care workers often had severe symptoms and every one in four had to be admitted to the ICU while in the hospital.

The median age of those workers was also much younger than expected at 49 years old. The report says previously the reported median age was 62.

The majority of those hospitalized were also women, which the report says matches the distribution of men vs. women in the health care industry.

While the report could not determine whether they caught the virus while out in the community or while on the job, it did stress that there is a heightened risk of catching the virus compared to the general population.

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“Nursing-related occupations also account for a large proportion of the U.S. health care workforce: in 2019, registered nurses alone represented approximately one third of health care practitioners. This has implications for the capacity of the health care system, specifically nursing staff members, to respond to increases in COVID-19 cases in the community,” reads a section of the report.

It went on to stress the importance of health care workers taking safety precautions like wearing N95-equivalent or higher-level respirators and eye coverings when in health care facilities.