November 20, 2020

Temporal Associations between Community Incidence of COVID-19 and Nursing Home Outbreaks in Ontario, Canada

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

Keywords (Tags): health care setting

• [Pre-print, not peer reviewed] In a population-based cohort study of all laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Province of Ontario, Canada (population >14-million) between March 1, 2020 and July 16, the average lag time between community cases and nursing home outbreaks was 23 days, with substantial variability across geographic regions ranging from 11 to 43 days.

Malikov et al. (Nov 19, 2020). Temporal Associations between Community Incidence of COVID-19 and Nursing Home Outbreaks in Ontario, Canada. Pre-print downloaded Nov 19 from https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.17.20233312