Oral Microbiota Associated with COVID Cases in Puerto Rico

Our specific objective was to establish a prospective six-month cohort to characterize the factors related to viral transmission and disease severity in both healthcare settings and workers' households as well as pregnant women (PW), Non-Health care workers (community of the Medical Sciences Campus personnel, faculty, and employees)) and other patients attending the clinics. Our central hypothesis is that HCW and PW are at higher risk of acquiring and transmitting SARS-CoV-2 compared with non-healthcare workers (NCHW) and that COVID-positive participants will have a different oral microbiota than healthy controls.