{"id":1719,"date":"2020-10-22T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2020-10-23T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:47:03","slug":"evolution-and-effects-of-covid-19-outbreaks-in-care-homes-a-population-analysis-in-189-care-homes-in-one-geographical-region-of-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/22\/evolution-and-effects-of-covid-19-outbreaks-in-care-homes-a-population-analysis-in-189-care-homes-in-one-geographical-region-of-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution and Effects of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Care Homes: A Population Analysis in 189 Care Homes in One Geographical Region of the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A population analysis of 189 care homes in Scotland between March and August found 69 (37%) had a confirmed COVID-19 outbreak, of which almost all (96%) were care homes for older people. The size of care homes for older people was strongly associated with an outbreak (OR per 20-bed increase 3.35, 95% CI 1\u00b799\u20135.63). 907 confirmed cases and 432 COVID-19-related deaths were recorded during the study period, with a quarter of both cases and deaths occurring in only 3% of the care homes. 74 excess deaths were reported among care homes experiencing an outbreak compared to 10 excess deaths in care homes that did not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Burton et al. (Oct 20, 2020). Evolution and Effects of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Care Homes: A Population Analysis in 189 Care Homes in One Geographical Region of the UK. The Lancet Healthy Longevity. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2666-7568(20)30012-X\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2666-7568(20)30012-X<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A population analysis of 189 care homes in Scotland between March and August found 69 (37%) had a confirmed COVID-19 outbreak, of which almost all (96%) were care homes for older people. The size of care homes for older people was strongly associated with an outbreak (OR per 20-bed increase 3.35, 95% CI 1\u00b799\u20135.63). 907&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/22\/evolution-and-effects-of-covid-19-outbreaks-in-care-homes-a-population-analysis-in-189-care-homes-in-one-geographical-region-of-the-uk\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[97,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-nursing-home","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}