Module 2.2 – Healthcare cluster transmission

What to know

This case study from Minnesota provides insight into two separate outbreaks at long-term care settings, and how sequencing helped clarify the pattern of transmission in these settings.

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Overview

Presenter: Nicholas Lehnertz, MD MPH MHS | Physician and Epidemiologist, Minnesota Department of Health
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You can read more about this work: Serial testing for SARS-CoV-2 and virus whole-genome sequencing

Further Reading

  1. Serial testing for SARS-CoV-2 and virus whole genome sequencing inform infection risk at two skilled nursing facilities with COVID-19 outbreaks – Minnesota, April-June 2020. Taylor, et al. MMWR, 2020.

Additional Resources

  1. Meredith, et al. Lancet Infect Dis, 2020.
  2. MacCannell, et al. Clin Infect Dis, 2021.
  3. Paltansing, et al. J Hosp Infect, 2021.
  4. Everett, et al. mBio, 2021.
  5. Braun, et al. Clin Infect Dis, 2021.
  6. COVID-19 outbreak associated with a SARS-CoV-2 R.1 lineage variant in a skilled nursing facility after vaccination program — Kentucky, March 2021. Cavanaugh, et al. MMWR, 2021.
  7. Bouton, et al. medRxiv, 2021.
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National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)