Berlin. If a person infected with Corona lives in the household, infection can be avoided. A current study shows what can help.
If a person infected with the corona virus lives in your own household, protective measures can be taken to protect other family members or partners from it infection preserve. That is result a study the University Medical Center Halle (Saale). The results were published in the specialist journal “Infection”.
In the complex investigation were 262 households with 662 people, including 122 children, were included. Around two thirds of the study participants had been vaccinated at least three times, twelve percent had not yet received any vaccination at the time of infection. The households informed the Halle University Medical Center from mid to late 2022 immediately after an infection with the omicron variant of Sars-CoV-2 occurred. They were then sent test kits for blood samples, symptom diaries and access to an online questionnaire.
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The aim of the study was to examine how the risk of infection in one’s own household changes over time after a vaccination or infection. In this context, researchers Bianca Klee and Sophie Diexer from the Institute for Medical Epidemiology, Biometrics and Informatics also asked about possible measures that households could take Schutz of non-infected people.
