September 11, 2020

COVID-19 Transmission Within Danish Households A Nationwide Study from Lockdown to Reopening

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Transmission

Keywords (Tags): transmission

• [Pre-print, not peer reviewed] A study utilizing Danish registry data found that the proportion of contacts of an initial index case with SARS-CoV-2 infection who tested positive increased in an approximately linear manner with increasing age of the index case. Overall, 17% of household contacts of an index case tested positive within 14 days.

Lyngse et al. (Sept 9, 2020). COVID-19 Transmission Within Danish Households A Nationwide Study from Lockdown to Reopening. Pre-print downloaded Sep 11 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.09.20191239