Interventions for preventing Covid-19 outbreaks and controlling transmission in care homes

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Description

Interventions for preventing Covid-19 outbreaks and controlling transmission in care homes can help greatly alleviate the burden caused by the pandemic. In many high income over 40% of care home deaths are attributed to care home residents (e.g., UK and US). Plenty of research has been done on how to control infection outbreaks in hospital environments over the past couple decades; however, research on what works in care homes has been very limited. Care homes are unique in that they act as a home in addition to a health facility, and imposing guidelines from the hospital setting is not practical. We have been developing complex systems simulation models such agent-based models in collaboration with colleagues working in care homes to model the transmission dynamics in care homes and explore what interventions and care home structure work best in care homes and across them.
PeriodApr 2021
Held atBar Ilan University, Israel

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