September 21, 2020

A COVID-19 Nursing Home Transmission Study Sequence and Metadata from Weekly Testing in an Extensive Nursing Home Outbreak

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Transmission

Keywords (Tags): transmission

• [Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Residents with symptomatic and pre-symptomatic/unrecognized SARS-COV-2 infection in a Dutch nursing home outbreak had similar levels of viral shedding. Weekly facility-wide testing at the nursing home that began after admission of a resident who was recently hospitalized identified an additional positive residents (29 symptomatic, 38 pre-symptomatic, 7 asymptomatic), resulting in a total of 113 cases.

Besselaar et al. (Sept 18, 2020). A COVID-19 Nursing Home Transmission Study Sequence and Metadata from Weekly Testing in an Extensive Nursing Home Outbreak. Pre-print downloaded Sept 21 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.15.20195396