Differential clinical characteristics and performance of home antigen tests between parents and children after household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during the Omicron variant pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant pandemic struck Taiwan in April 2022. Rapid antigen tests (RATs) play an important role in providing rapid results during a pandemic. However, self-collected samples by the children's caregivers without the supervision of medical personnel raise some concerns.

Methods

This study was performed to investigate household transmission, clinical characteristics, and antigen performance in a special COVID-19 family clinic in a children's hospital. The performance of at-home RATs was evaluated based on reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction.

Results

We included 627 patients in our study between May 11 and June 10, 2022. The COVID-19 full vaccination rate was significantly higher in adults (98.5%) than in children (5.9%, P <0.

SUBMITTER: Chen SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9837218 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature