ArticleScientific reports2021
COVID-19 transmission in group living environments and households.
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- The role of children in transmission of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern within households: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis, as at 30 June 2022.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2023Pooled it
- Factors Associated With Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2021Pooled it
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- Assessing favipiravir impact on SARS-CoV-2 transmission within households: Insights from a multi-center study (FaviPrev).Journal of virus eradication · 2024Article
- Decay pattern of SARS-CoV-2 RNA surface contamination in real residences.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Application of elastic net regression for modeling COVID-19 sociodemographic risk factors.PloS one · 2024Article
- Environmental predictors of SARS-CoV-2 infection incidence in Catalonia (northwestern Mediterranean).Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Association Between Population-Level Factors and Household Secondary Attack Rate of SARS-CoV-2: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Open forum infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 transmission in student residences: a case-ascertained study.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2022Article
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- A network meta-analysis of secondary attack rates of COVID-19 in different contact environments.Epidemiology and infection · 2021Review
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Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently the world's largest public health concern. This study evaluated COVID-19 transmission risks in people in group living environments. A total of 4550 individuals with a history of recent contact with patients at different places (dormitory/home/outside the residences) and levels (close/lower-risk) were tested for SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA using a nasopharyngeal swab test between July 2020 and May 2021. The test-positive rate was highest in individuals who had contact in dormitories (27.5%), but the rates were largely different between dormitories with different infrastructural or lifestyle features and infection control measures among residents. With appropriate infection control measures, the secondary transmission risk in dormitories was adequately suppressed. The household transmission rate (12.6%) was as high as that of close contact outside the residences (11.3%) and accounted for > 60% of the current rate of COVID-19 transmission among non-adults. Household transmission rates synchronized to local epidemics with changed local capacity of quarantining infectious patients. In conclusion, a group living environment is a significant risk factor of secondary transmission. Appropriate infection control measures and quarantine of infectious residents will decrease the risk of secondary transmission in group living environments.
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