Infection and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in London care homes reporting no cases or outbreaks of COVID-19: Prospective observational cohort study, England 2020

• Main Authors: Anna Jeffery-Smith (Author), Kate Dun-Campbell (Author), Roshni Janarthanan (Author), Jonathan Fok (Author), Emma Crawley-Boevey (Author), Amoolya Vusirikala (Author), Elena Fernandez Ruiz De Olano (Author), Marina Sanchez Perez (Author), Suzanne Tang (Author), Thomas AJ Rowland (Author), Edward Wynne-Evans (Author), Anita Bell (Author), Bharat Patel (Author), Zahin Amin-Chowdhury (Author), Felicity Aiano (Author), Karthik Paranthaman (Author), Thomas Ma (Author), Maria Saavedra-Campos (Author), Joanna Ellis (Author), Angie Lackenby (Author), Heather Whitaker (Author), Richard Myers (Author), Katja Höschler (Author), Kevin Brown (Author), Mary E Ramsay (Author), Nandini Shetty (Author), J. Yimmy Chow (Author), Shamez Ladhani (Author), Maria Zambon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Care homes have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigated the potential role of asymptomatic infection and silent transmission in London care homes that reported no cases of COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic. Methods: Five care homes with no...