Mallet, Yoann
Pivette, Mathilde
Revest, Matthieu
Angot, Elisabeth
Valence, Marion
Dupin, Clarisse
Picard, Nicolas
Brelivet, Guillaume
Seyler, Thomas
Ballet, Stéphany
Le Tertre, Alain
Guillois, Yvonnick http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3069-3779
Article History
Received: 15 July 2021
Accepted: 7 October 2021
First Online: 16 October 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: Santé publique France, the French national public health agency, is legally missioned to watch the health of French population by implementing information systems collecting health data (L. 1413–1 code de la santé Publique). This investigation was implemented in compliance with the authorization delivered to Santé publique France by the French data protection authority (CNIL) to process personal health data in order to prevent, alert or monitor an epidemiological crisis (authorization 341194 V42). According to French law, only research involving a human being (research defined by article L. 1121–1 and article R. 1121–1 of the code de la santé publique) are compelled to receive the approval of ethics committee. The research involving a human being aims to improve biological or medical knowledge. This epidemiological investigation was not qualified as a research involving a human being research and as a consequence did not require the approval of an ethic committee.
: Workers gave informed verbal informed consent before being sampled. The article does not contain any directly or indirectly identifying data.