{"id":55523,"date":"2021-09-02T08:14:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T12:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=55523"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:14:57","slug":"transmission-rate-of-covid-19-within-households-can-be-over-30-more-than-50-from-minority-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/transmission-rate-of-covid-19-within-households-can-be-over-30-more-than-50-from-minority-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission Rate of COVID-19 Within Households Can Be Over 30%, More than 50% from Minority Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50518\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 250px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/04\/jessica-lin-e1631880640818.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2021\/04\/jessica-lin-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Jessica Lin, MD MSCR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With potent virulence and transmissibility, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is one of the deadliest pathogens to be encountered in recorded history. Scientists have reiterated that other than hygienic measures, distance between individuals is the best defense against its spread. However, the latter is difficult within a household and presents challenges in the event of a member contracting the coronavirus infection. Now, a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cid\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab701\/6349288\">new study<\/a> led by Jessica Lin, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases, recognizes that the infection rate among housemates can be over 30 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.in\/transmission-rate-covid-19-within-households-can-be-over-30-more-50-minority-communities-840125\">Read the article in <em>International Business Times<\/em><\/a>. The study was also featured in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthcareasia.org\/2021\/new-insight-into-secondary-transmission-of-covid-19-at-home\/\">Health Care Asia Daily<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With potent virulence and transmissibility, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is one of the deadliest pathogens to be encountered in recorded history. Scientists have reiterated that other than hygienic measures, distance between individuals is the best defense against its spread. However, the latter is difficult within a household and presents challenges in the event of a member &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/transmission-rate-of-covid-19-within-households-can-be-over-30-more-than-50-from-minority-communities\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Transmission Rate of COVID-19 Within Households Can Be Over 30%, More than 50% from Minority Communities\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":50518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[100,2],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-55523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infectious-diseases","category-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Transmission Rate of COVID-19 Within Households Can Be Over 30%, More than 50% from Minority Communities | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/transmission-rate-of-covid-19-within-households-can-be-over-30-more-than-50-from-minority-communities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Transmission Rate of COVID-19 Within Households Can Be Over 30%, More than 50% from Minority Communities | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With potent virulence and transmissibility, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is one of the deadliest pathogens to be encountered in recorded history. 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