High impact of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities, suggestion for monitoring in the EU/EEA, May 2020

Public Health Emergency Team, ECDC; Danis, Kostas; Fonteneau, Laure; Georges, Scarlett; Daniau, Côme; Bernard-Stoecklin, Sibylle; Domegan, Lisa; O’Donnell, Joan; Helene Hauge, Siri; Dequeker, Sara; Vandael, Eline; Van der Heyden, Johan; Renard, Françoise; Bustos Sierra, Natalia; Ricchizzi, Enrico; Schweickert, Birgitta; Schmidt, Nicole; Abu Sin, Muna; Eckmanns, Tim; Paiva, José-Artur; Schneider, Elke

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es.2020.25.22.2000956

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High impact of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities, suggestion for monitoring in the EU/EEA, May 2020

Published in Eurosurveillance • Jun 4, 2020

Authors:

ECDC Public Health Emergency Team

Kostas Danis

Laure Fonteneau

Abstract

Residents in long-term care facilities (LTCF) are a vulnerable population group. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related deaths in LTCF residents represent 30-60% of all COVID-19 deaths in many European countries. This situation demands that countries implement local and national testing, infection p...

Subject

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Outbreak

Long-term care

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