{"id":9739,"date":"2021-05-12T10:30:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2021-05-13T10:31:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T17:31:10","slug":"household-overcrowding-and-risk-of-sars-cov-2-analysis-of-the-virus-watch-prospective-community-cohort-study-in-england-and-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/12\/household-overcrowding-and-risk-of-sars-cov-2-analysis-of-the-virus-watch-prospective-community-cohort-study-in-england-and-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Household Overcrowding and Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Analysis of the Virus Watch Prospective Community Cohort Study in England and Wales"},"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[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]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\"> The proportion of people with SARS-CoV-2 positive PCR tests was higher among participants living in houses with more occupants than rooms (\u201covercrowded houses\u201d) when compared to houses with fewer occupants (7% vs 3%) per room, according to a household community cohort study in England and Wales (n=10,33) conducted between June 2020 to May 2021. Adjusting for age, sex, ethnicity, household income, and geographical region, the likelihood of having a positive PCR SARS-CoV-2 antigen test was nearly 4-fold higher among those living in houses with more occupants than rooms. Similarly, the likelihood of being positive for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies was nearly 3-fold higher among those in overcrowded houses.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Aldridge et al.\u00a0(May 11, 2021). Household Overcrowding and Risk of SARS-CoV-2 Analysis of the Virus Watch Prospective Community Cohort Study in England and Wales. Pre-print downloaded May 12 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.10.21256912\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.10.21256912<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] The proportion of people with SARS-CoV-2 positive PCR tests was higher among participants living in houses with more occupants than rooms (\u201covercrowded houses\u201d) when compared to houses with fewer occupants (7% vs 3%) per room, according to a household community cohort study in England and Wales (n=10,33) conducted between June 2020 to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/12\/household-overcrowding-and-risk-of-sars-cov-2-analysis-of-the-virus-watch-prospective-community-cohort-study-in-england-and-wales\/\">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":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739","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=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9740,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions\/9740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}