{"id":9133,"date":"2021-04-14T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9133"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T17:39:21","slug":"high-coverage-covid-19-mrna-vaccination-rapidly-controls-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-long-term-care-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/14\/high-coverage-covid-19-mrna-vaccination-rapidly-controls-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-long-term-care-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"High Coverage COVID-19 MRNA Vaccination Rapidly Controls SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Long-Term Care Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A study comparing documented <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SARS-CoV-2 infections and deaths in Spain to counterfactual model predictions from February 6 to March 28, 2021 estimated that after 70% of long-term care facility<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> residents <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">had been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, 74% of COVID-19 deaths and 75% of all documented infections were prevented, and transmission was reduced up to 90%. The authors note that in enclosed populations such as long-term care facilities, high vaccination rates may rapidly control SARS-CoV-2 transmission.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Salazar et al.\u00a0(Apr 13, 2021). High Coverage COVID-19 MRNA Vaccination Rapidly Controls SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Long-Term Care Facilities. Pre-print downloaded Apr 14 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.08.21255108\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.08.21255108<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A study comparing documented SARS-CoV-2 infections and deaths in Spain to counterfactual model predictions from February 6 to March 28, 2021 estimated that after 70% of long-term care facility residents had been fully vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, 74% of COVID-19 deaths and 75% of all documented infections were prevented, and transmission&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/14\/high-coverage-covid-19-mrna-vaccination-rapidly-controls-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-long-term-care-facilities\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[147],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccination","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9134,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9133\/revisions\/9134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9133"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}