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. 2020 Oct;81(4):647-679.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.05.029. Epub 2020 May 19.

Comparing hospitalised, community and staff COVID-19 infection rates during the early phase of the evolving COVID-19 epidemic

Julian W Tang  1 , Sarah Young  2 , Shoshanna May  2 , Paul Bird  2 , Jan Bron  2 , Tarannum Mohamedanif  2 , Carina Bradley  2 , Daxa Patel  2 , Christopher W Holmes  2 , Kin On Kwok  3
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Comparing hospitalised, community and staff COVID-19 infection rates during the early phase of the evolving COVID-19 epidemic

Julian W Tang et al. J Infect. 2020 Oct.
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Keywords: COVID-19; Community; Diagnostic testing; Patient; Positivity rate; R0; SARS-CoV-2; Staff; Transmission.

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Age-stratified (18-49 yrs, 50-74 yrs, >75 yrs) SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) positive cases (left vertical axis – linear scale) in hospitalised (A - HOSP) and community (B - COMM) patients, and staff (C - STAF) populations plotted over time. Effective reproductive number (Rt –right vertical axis – logarithmic scale) is plotted for each group with the same age-related colour code.
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