Publications - May 2022
Preprint and peer-reviewed publications from RECOVER’s studies
Household transmission studies are useful to quantify SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics. A remote prospective household study was conducted to quantify transmission, and the effects of subject characteristics, household characteristics, and implemented infection control measures on transmission.
Prevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in young children (> 6 months) and their role in transmission remains unclear. Most SARS-CoV-2 infections in young children are asymptomatic or characterised by mild clinical symptoms, and consequently, young children are also less often tested than adolescents and adults. At the onset of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, we introduced the collection of a nasopharyngeal (NP) swab for detection of SARS-CoV-2 in the child population attending day-care centres (DCCs) in Belgium. We investigated carriage of SARS-CoV-2 from May 2020 to February 2022 in young children attending 100 DCCs in Belgium, to gain insight on their role in SARS-CoV-2 transmission.