COVID-19 epidemiology and rural healthcare: a survey in a Spanish village.

ABSTRACT: We used primary care data to retrospectively describe the entry, spread, and impact of COVID-19 in a remote rural community and the associated risk factors and challenges faced by the healthcare team. Generalized linear models were fitted to assess the relationship between age, sex, period, risk group status, symptom duration, post-COVID illness, and disease severity. Social network and cluster analyses were also used. The first six cases, including travel events and a social event in town, contributed to early infection spread. About 351 positive cases were recorded and 6% of patients experienced two COVID-19 episodes in the 2.5-year study period. Five space-time case clusters were identified. One case, linked with the social event, was particularly central in its contact network. The dur

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Del-Rio FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10644065 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature