Successful detection of SARS-COV-2 in wastewater suggests the potential utility of
wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for COVID-19 community surveillance. This …

Background Starting in late 2019, COVID‐19, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐
2, spread around the world. Long‐term care facilities are at particularly high risk of …

Background The infection-fatality ratio (IFR) is a metric that quantifies the likelihood of an
individual dying once infected with a pathogen. Understanding the determinants of IFR …

Executive summary The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are
born, grow, work, live, and age and people's access to power, money and resources. The …

Long-term care facility (LTCF) older residents display physiological alterations of cellular
and humoral immunity that affect vaccine responses. Preliminary reports suggested a low …

This document is an update of the guidance published on 21 March 2020 and contains new
evidence and guidance, including the following:• updated results from published studies on …

Background Long-term care facilities across Canada have been disproportionately affected
by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to describe the experiences of frontline workers …

Ageing is associated with profound changes in behaviour that could influence exposure and
susceptibility to infectious disease. As well as determining emergent patterns of infection …

Objective To compare 30-day mortality in long-term care facility (LTCF) residents with and
without COVID-19 and to investigate the impact of 31 potential risk factors for mortality in …

This open access book turns the research attention of social policy scholars and long-term
care researchers from comparative descriptions of care systems, focusing mostly on …