Changes in COVID-19 outbreak severity and duration in long-term care facilities following vaccine introduction, England, November 2020 to June 2021

We describe the impact of changing epidemiology and vaccine introduction on characteristics of COVID-19 outbreaks in 330 long-term care facilities (LTCF) in England between November 2020 and June 2021. As vaccine coverage in LTCF increased and national incidence declined, the total number of outbrea...

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Autores principales: Giddings, Rebecca, Krutikov, Maria, Palmer, Tom, Fuller, Christopher, Azmi, Borscha, Shrotri, Madhumita, Irwin-Singer, Aidan, Tut, Gokhan, Moss, Paul, Copas, Andrew, Shallcross, Laura
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2021
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8603404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34794537
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.46.2100995
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author Giddings, Rebecca
Krutikov, Maria
Palmer, Tom
Fuller, Christopher
Azmi, Borscha
Shrotri, Madhumita
Irwin-Singer, Aidan
Tut, Gokhan
Moss, Paul
Copas, Andrew
Shallcross, Laura
author_facet Giddings, Rebecca
Krutikov, Maria
Palmer, Tom
Fuller, Christopher
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Shrotri, Madhumita
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description We describe the impact of changing epidemiology and vaccine introduction on characteristics of COVID-19 outbreaks in 330 long-term care facilities (LTCF) in England between November 2020 and June 2021. As vaccine coverage in LTCF increased and national incidence declined, the total number of outbreaks and outbreak severity decreased across the LTCF. The number of infected cases per outbreak decreased by 80.6%, while the proportion of outbreaks affecting staff only increased. Our study supports findings of vaccine effectiveness in LTCF.
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spelling pubmed-86034042021-12-07 Changes in COVID-19 outbreak severity and duration in long-term care facilities following vaccine introduction, England, November 2020 to June 2021 Giddings, Rebecca Krutikov, Maria Palmer, Tom Fuller, Christopher Azmi, Borscha Shrotri, Madhumita Irwin-Singer, Aidan Tut, Gokhan Moss, Paul Copas, Andrew Shallcross, Laura Euro Surveill Rapid Communication We describe the impact of changing epidemiology and vaccine introduction on characteristics of COVID-19 outbreaks in 330 long-term care facilities (LTCF) in England between November 2020 and June 2021. As vaccine coverage in LTCF increased and national incidence declined, the total number of outbreaks and outbreak severity decreased across the LTCF. The number of infected cases per outbreak decreased by 80.6%, while the proportion of outbreaks affecting staff only increased. Our study supports findings of vaccine effectiveness in LTCF. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2021-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8603404/ /pubmed/34794537 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.46.2100995 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Rapid Communication
Giddings, Rebecca
Krutikov, Maria
Palmer, Tom
Fuller, Christopher
Azmi, Borscha
Shrotri, Madhumita
Irwin-Singer, Aidan
Tut, Gokhan
Moss, Paul
Copas, Andrew
Shallcross, Laura
Changes in COVID-19 outbreak severity and duration in long-term care facilities following vaccine introduction, England, November 2020 to June 2021
title Changes in COVID-19 outbreak severity and duration in long-term care facilities following vaccine introduction, England, November 2020 to June 2021
title_full Changes in COVID-19 outbreak severity and duration in long-term care facilities following vaccine introduction, England, November 2020 to June 2021
title_fullStr Changes in COVID-19 outbreak severity and duration in long-term care facilities following vaccine introduction, England, November 2020 to June 2021
title_full_unstemmed Changes in COVID-19 outbreak severity and duration in long-term care facilities following vaccine introduction, England, November 2020 to June 2021
title_short Changes in COVID-19 outbreak severity and duration in long-term care facilities following vaccine introduction, England, November 2020 to June 2021
title_sort changes in covid-19 outbreak severity and duration in long-term care facilities following vaccine introduction, england, november 2020 to june 2021
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8603404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34794537
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.46.2100995
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