Should staff lock down in the nursing home alongside residents to stop COVID coming in?
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How do we keep COVID-19 out of nursing homes? The French may have come up with at least part of the answer, after staff members of some French nursing homes decided to confine themselves with their residents on a voluntary basis to reduce the risk of the virus coming into the facility. Only 0.4 per cent of residents in the nursing homes with staff who self-confined had confirmed COVID-19, compared with 4.4 per cent of residents in the broader nursing home population. The death rate was also substantially lower. The authors say the findings suggest that self-confinement of staff members with residents may help protect nursing home residents from death related to COVID-19 and residents and staff from COVID-19 infection.
Journal/conference: JAMA Network Open
Link to research (DOI): 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.17533
Organisation/s: Hôpital Charles Foix, France
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