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Sharing a household with children and risk of COVID-19: a study of over 300 000 adults living in healthcare worker households in Scotland by Rachael Wood; Emma Thomson; Robert Galbraith; Ciara Gribben; David Caldwell; Jennifer Bishop; Martin Reid; Anoop S V Shah; Kate Templeton; David Goldberg; Chris Robertson; Sharon J Hutchinson; Helen M Colhoun; Paul M McKeigue; David A McAllister is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objective Children are relatively protected from COVID-19, due to a range of potential mechanisms. We investigated if contact with children also affords adults a degree of protection from COVID-19. ## Design Cohort study based on linked administrative data. ## Setting Scotland. ## Study population All National Health Service Scotland healthcare workers and their household contacts as of March 2020. ## Main exposure Number of young children (0–11 years) living in the participant’s household. ## Main outcomes COVID-19 requiring hospitalisation, and any COVID-19 (any positive test for SARS-CoV-2) in adults aged ≥18 years between 1 March and 12 October 2020. ## Results 241 266, 41 198, 23 783 and 3850 adults shared a household with 0, 1, 2 and 3 or more young children, respectively. Over the study period, the risk of COVID-19 requiring hospitalisation was reduced progressively with increasing numbers of household children—fully adjusted HR (aHR) 0.93 per child (95% CI 0.79 to 1.10). The risk of any COVID-19 was similarly reduced, with the association being statistically significant (aHR per child 0.93; 95% CI 0.88 to 0.98). After schools reopened to all children in August 2020, no a
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- Author
- Rachael Wood; Emma Thomson; Robert Galbraith; Ciara Gribben; David Caldwell; Jennifer Bishop; Martin Reid; Anoop S V Shah; Kate Templeton; David Goldberg; Chris Robertson; Sharon J Hutchinson; Helen M Colhoun; Paul M McKeigue; David A McAllister
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)