Clusters of COVID-19 in long-term care hospitals and facilities in Japan from 16 January to 9 May 2020.

Osamu IritaniTazuo OkunoDaisuke HamaAsami KaneKumie KoderaKozue MorigakiToshio TeraiNorie MaenoShigeto Morimoto

Published in: Geriatrics & gerontology international (2020)

Preventive efforts against COVID-19 outbreaks even at the early phase of the epidemic are critically important in LTC hospitals/facilities, as both the larger number and size of clusters only in LTC hospitals/facilities were independently linked to higher mortality in prefectures in Japan. Geriatr Gerontol Int 2020; 20: 715-719.

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