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Age‐related risk of household transmission of COVID‐19 in Singapore

Prior to the implementation of social distancing measures, we monitored the close family contacts of the first 400 cases of COVID‐19 in Singapore for SARS‐CoV‐2 infection to determine the risk of infection with age. Adjusting for gender and household size, the risk of COVID‐19 infection in household...

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Autores principales: Pung, Rachael, Park, Minah, Cook, Alex R., Lee, Vernon J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7646651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32990399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12809
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description Prior to the implementation of social distancing measures, we monitored the close family contacts of the first 400 cases of COVID‐19 in Singapore for SARS‐CoV‐2 infection to determine the risk of infection with age. Adjusting for gender and household size, the risk of COVID‐19 infection in household contacts was found to increase with age.
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spelling pubmed-76466512020-11-06 Age‐related risk of household transmission of COVID‐19 in Singapore Pung, Rachael Park, Minah Cook, Alex R. Lee, Vernon J. Influenza Other Respir Viruses Short Articles Prior to the implementation of social distancing measures, we monitored the close family contacts of the first 400 cases of COVID‐19 in Singapore for SARS‐CoV‐2 infection to determine the risk of infection with age. Adjusting for gender and household size, the risk of COVID‐19 infection in household contacts was found to increase with age. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-09-29 2021-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7646651/ /pubmed/32990399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12809 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7646651/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32990399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/irv.12809
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