Infection and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in London care homes reporting no cases or outbreaks of COVID-19: Prospective observational cohort study, England 2020

Infection and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in London care homes reporting no cases or outbreaks of COVID-19: Prospective observational cohort study, England 2020

Background: Care homes have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigated the potential role of asymptomatic infection and silent transmission in London care homes that reported no cases of COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic. Methods: Five care homes with no...

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Main Authors: Anna Jeffery-Smith, Kate Dun-Campbell, Roshni Janarthanan, Jonathan Fok, Emma Crawley-Boevey, Amoolya Vusirikala, Elena Fernandez Ruiz De Olano, Marina Sanchez Perez, Suzanne Tang, Thomas AJ Rowland, Edward Wynne-Evans, Anita Bell, Bharat Patel, Zahin Amin-Chowdhury, Felicity Aiano, Karthik Paranthaman, Thomas Ma, Maria Saavedra-Campos, Joanna Ellis, Angie Lackenby, Heather Whitaker, Richard Myers, Katja Höschler, Kevin Brown, Mary E Ramsay, Nandini Shetty, J. Yimmy Chow, Shamez Ladhani, Maria Zambon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-04-01
Series:The Lancet Regional Health. Europe
Subjects:
SARS-CoV-2 outbreak
Care home
Asymptomatic transmission
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666776221000156

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