Investigating the association between COVID-19 vaccination and care home outbreak frequency and duration.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

At the end of 2020, many countries commenced a vaccination programme against SARS-CoV-2. Public health authorities aim to prevent and interrupt outbreaks of infectious disease in social care settings. We aimed to investigate the association between the introduction of the vaccination programme and the frequency and duration of COVID-19 outbreaks in Northern Ireland (NI).

Study design

We undertook an ecological study using routinely available national data.

Methods

We used Poisson regression to measure the relationship between the number of RT-PCR confirmed COVID-19 outbreaks in care homes, and as a measure of community COVID-19 prevalence, the Office for National Statistics COVID-19 Infection Survey estimated the number of people testing positive for COVID-

SUBMITTER: Bradley DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8683272 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature