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Genomic epidemiology of COVID-19 in care homes in the East of England

2020-09-01

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COVID-19 poses a major challenge to care homes, as SARS-CoV-2 is readily transmitted and causes disproportionately severe disease in older people. Here, 1,167 residents from 337 care homes were identified from a dataset of 6,600 COVID-19 cases from the East of England. Older age and being a care home resident were associated with increased mortality. SARS-CoV-2 genomes were available for 700 residents from 292 car...

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DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.26.20182279

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