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ArticleScandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports2022

SARS-CoV-2 prevalence and transmission in swimming activities: Results from a retrospective cohort study.

Martin Brink Termansen, Ask Vest Christiansen, Sebastian Frische

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Article in Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Martin Brink TermansenDepartment of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2690-3403
Ask Vest ChristiansenDepartment of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6115-6314
Sebastian FrischeDepartment of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0270-3602
Aarhus University · DK

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is an urgent need for research on the epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as the transmissibility differs between settings and populations. Here we report on a questionnaire-based retrospective cohort study of the prevalence and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 among participants in swimming activities in Denmark in the last 5 months of 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight of 162 swimming activities with a SARS-CoV-2 positive participant led to transmission to 23 other participants. Overall, the percentage of episodes leading to transmission was 4.9% (competitive swimming 8.9%; recreational swimming 1.3%). Overall, the incidence rate of transmission was 19.5 participants per 100 000 pool activity hours (corresponding values: 43.5 and 4.7 for competitive and recreational swimming, respectively). Compliance with precautionary restrictions was highest regarding hand hygiene (98.1%) and lowest in distancing personal sports bags (69.9%). As a result of low statistical power, the study showed no significant effect of restrictions. Insight into the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during indoor swimming is needed to estimate the efficiency of restrictive measures on this and other sports and leisure activities. Only when we know how the virus spreads through various settings, optimal strategies to handle the COVID-19 pandemic can be developed.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2HumansPandemicsPrevalenceRetrospective StudiesSwimmingCOVID-19epidemiologyquestionnairerecreational waterrestrictionssportssurveyswimming pool

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PMID34606662
PMCPMC8662273
OpenAlexW3201906549

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