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Adherence to Public Health Measures Mitigates the Risk of COVID-19 Infection in Older Adults: A Community-Based Study
OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases during the reopening period in older adults, given that little is known about the prevalence of COVID-19 after the stay-at-home order was lifted in the United States, nor the actual effects of adhere...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7768210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33714601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.12.016 |
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author | Juhn, Young J. Wi, Chung-Il Ryu, Euijung Sampathkumar, Priya Takahashi, Paul Y. Yao, Joseph D. Binnicker, Matthew J. Natoli, Traci L. Evans, Tamara K. King, Katherine S. Volpe, Stephanie Pirçon, Jean-Yves Silvia Damaso Pignolo, Robert J. |
author_facet | Juhn, Young J. Wi, Chung-Il Ryu, Euijung Sampathkumar, Priya Takahashi, Paul Y. Yao, Joseph D. Binnicker, Matthew J. Natoli, Traci L. Evans, Tamara K. King, Katherine S. Volpe, Stephanie Pirçon, Jean-Yves Silvia Damaso Pignolo, Robert J. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases during the reopening period in older adults, given that little is known about the prevalence of COVID-19 after the stay-at-home order was lifted in the United States, nor the actual effects of adherence to recommended public health measures (RPHM) on the risk of COVID-19. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study nested in a parent prospective cohort study, which followed a population-based sample of 2325 adults 50 years and older residing in southeast Minnesota to assess the incidence of viral infections. Participants were instructed to self-collect both nasal and oropharyngeal swabs, which were tested by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction–based severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) assay between May 8, 2020, and June, 30, 2020. We assessed the prevalence of COVID-19 cases and characteristics of study subjects. RESULTS: A total of 1505 eligible subjects participated in the study whose mean age was 68 years, with 885 (59%) women, 32 (2%) racial/ethnic minorities, and 906 (60%) with high-risk conditions for influenza. The prevalence of other Coronaviridae (human coronavirus [HCoV]-229E, HCoV-NL63, and HCoV-OC43) during the 2019 to 2020 flu season was 109 (7%), and none tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Almost all participants reported adhering to the RPHM (1,488 [99%] for social distancing, 1,438 [96%] for wearing mask in a public space, 1,476 [98%] for hand hygiene, and 1,441 (96%) for staying home mostly). Eighty-six percent of participants resided in a single-family home. CONCLUSION: We did not identify SARS-COV-2 infection in our study cohort. The combination of participants’ behavior in following the RPHM and their living environment may considerably mitigate the risk of COVID-19. |
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spelling | pubmed-77682102020-12-28 Adherence to Public Health Measures Mitigates the Risk of COVID-19 Infection in Older Adults: A Community-Based Study Juhn, Young J. Wi, Chung-Il Ryu, Euijung Sampathkumar, Priya Takahashi, Paul Y. Yao, Joseph D. Binnicker, Matthew J. Natoli, Traci L. Evans, Tamara K. King, Katherine S. Volpe, Stephanie Pirçon, Jean-Yves Silvia Damaso Pignolo, Robert J. Mayo Clin Proc Original Article OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases during the reopening period in older adults, given that little is known about the prevalence of COVID-19 after the stay-at-home order was lifted in the United States, nor the actual effects of adherence to recommended public health measures (RPHM) on the risk of COVID-19. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study nested in a parent prospective cohort study, which followed a population-based sample of 2325 adults 50 years and older residing in southeast Minnesota to assess the incidence of viral infections. Participants were instructed to self-collect both nasal and oropharyngeal swabs, which were tested by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction–based severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) assay between May 8, 2020, and June, 30, 2020. We assessed the prevalence of COVID-19 cases and characteristics of study subjects. RESULTS: A total of 1505 eligible subjects participated in the study whose mean age was 68 years, with 885 (59%) women, 32 (2%) racial/ethnic minorities, and 906 (60%) with high-risk conditions for influenza. The prevalence of other Coronaviridae (human coronavirus [HCoV]-229E, HCoV-NL63, and HCoV-OC43) during the 2019 to 2020 flu season was 109 (7%), and none tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Almost all participants reported adhering to the RPHM (1,488 [99%] for social distancing, 1,438 [96%] for wearing mask in a public space, 1,476 [98%] for hand hygiene, and 1,441 (96%) for staying home mostly). Eighty-six percent of participants resided in a single-family home. CONCLUSION: We did not identify SARS-COV-2 infection in our study cohort. The combination of participants’ behavior in following the RPHM and their living environment may considerably mitigate the risk of COVID-19. Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research 2021-04 2020-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7768210/ /pubmed/33714601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.12.016 Text en © 2020 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Juhn, Young J. Wi, Chung-Il Ryu, Euijung Sampathkumar, Priya Takahashi, Paul Y. Yao, Joseph D. Binnicker, Matthew J. Natoli, Traci L. Evans, Tamara K. King, Katherine S. Volpe, Stephanie Pirçon, Jean-Yves Silvia Damaso Pignolo, Robert J. Adherence to Public Health Measures Mitigates the Risk of COVID-19 Infection in Older Adults: A Community-Based Study |
title | Adherence to Public Health Measures Mitigates the Risk of COVID-19 Infection in Older Adults: A Community-Based Study |
title_full | Adherence to Public Health Measures Mitigates the Risk of COVID-19 Infection in Older Adults: A Community-Based Study |
title_fullStr | Adherence to Public Health Measures Mitigates the Risk of COVID-19 Infection in Older Adults: A Community-Based Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Adherence to Public Health Measures Mitigates the Risk of COVID-19 Infection in Older Adults: A Community-Based Study |
title_short | Adherence to Public Health Measures Mitigates the Risk of COVID-19 Infection in Older Adults: A Community-Based Study |
title_sort | adherence to public health measures mitigates the risk of covid-19 infection in older adults: a community-based study |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7768210/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33714601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.12.016 |
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