Open AccessAge‐related risk of household transmission of COVID‐19 in Singapore
Author(s) -
Pung Rachael,
Park Minah,
Cook Alex R.,
Lee Ver J.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
influenza and other respiratory viruses
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.743
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1750-2659
pISSN - 1750-2640
DOI - 10.1111/irv.12809
Subject(s) - covid-19 , social distance , transmission (telecommunications) , risk of infection , demography , infection risk , pandemic , medicine , environmental health , virology , biology , emergency medicine , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , sociology , telecommunications , genetics , computer science
Prior to the implementation of social distancing measures, we monitored the close family contacts of the first 400 cases of COVID‐19 in Singapore for SARS‐CoV‐2 infection to determine the risk of infection with age. Adjusting for gender and household size, the risk of COVID‐19 infection in household contacts was found to increase with age.