Markers of community outbreak and facility type for mitigation of COVID-19 in long-term care homes in Ontario, Canada: insights and implications from a time-series analysis

CONCLUSIONS: The association between the risk of COVID-19 in the health region and the deaths among LTCH residents, and the delay between fatality among individuals residing outside and inside LTCHs suggests that fatality in a health region could be a predictor of outbreak in LTCHs within the same health region.PMID:37690739 | DOI:10.1016/j.annepidem.2023.08.005

Source: Annals of Epidemiology - September 10, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: M Alavinejad M Tosato N L Bragazzi Z McCarthy J Wu L Bourouiba Source Type: research