Covid-19 transmission at home can be avoided by immediately isolating oneself.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA – SARS-CoV-2, a new type of corona virus, spreads very quickly among people who live together. You have to start wearing face mask in the common room immediately after feeling yourself or someone at home infected with the causative virus Covid-19 the.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report said more than 100 families in the Nashville and Marshfield area were studied from April to September to determine the level of Covid-19 transmission in a household. Fifty-three percent of people living with someone who tests positive for Covid-19 eventually become infected within a week, with 75 percent of secondary infections confirmed within five days or less.
“Because home transmission can be avoided by immediately self-isolating, people who suspect that they may have Covid-19 should separate, stay at home, and use separate bedrooms and bathrooms whenever possible,” the study said. Web MD, Thursday (5/11).
Isolation should be started before testing and before test results are available, as delaying isolation until confirmation of infection can eliminate opportunities to reduce transmission to others. Simultaneously, all family members, including patients, should start wearing masks at home, especially in common rooms where maintaining proper distances is not possible.
While most health authorities now recommend masks in public places, especially when inside, wearing masks inside a person’s residence is a relatively new problem. Sixty-nine percent of sick or ‘index’ patients reported spending four or more hours in the same room with other household members the day before they fell ill.
Forty percent of the index patients said they slept with other household members before they got sick and 30 percent still did after they got sick. The test is done by yourself.
Test takers’ ages ranged from under 12 to over 50 years. The new CDC study confirms what infectious disease experts have been saying since the early days of the pandemic: Viruses often spread through close personal contact and that people can spread the virus before they show any symptoms.
“These findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 transmission in households is high, occurs rapidly, and can originate in children as well as adults,” the CDC said of the new study.
According to the CDC, implementing rapid disease control measures, including self-isolation at home, appropriate self-quarantine of household contacts, and all household members wearing masks in common spaces, can reduce the likelihood of household transmission. The CDC notes that it is possible that the study participant was infected outside of the home or that a second person tested positive corona virus already infected when the index member’s infection was confirmed.
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