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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Setting-specific Transmission Rates: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Hayley A ThompsonAndria MousaAmy DigheHan FuAlberto Arnedo-PenaPeter BarrettJuan Bellido-BlascoQifang BiAntonio CaputiLiling ChawLuigi De MariaMatthias HoffmannKiran MahapureKangqi NgJagadesan RaghuramGurpreet SinghBiju SomanVicente SorianoFrancesca ValentLuigi VimercatiLiang En WeeJustin WongAzra C GhaniNeil M Ferguson
Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
Our results suggest that exposure in settings with familiar contacts increases SARS-CoV-2 transmission potential. Additionally, the differences observed in transmissibility by index case symptom status and duration of exposure have important implications for control strategies, such as contact tracing, testing, and rapid isolation of cases. There were limited data to explore transmission patterns in workplaces, schools, and care homes, highlighting the need for further research in such settings.
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