作者
Andrew Hayward, Ellen Fragaszy, Jana Kovar, Vincent Nguyen, Sarah Beale, Thomas Byrne, Anna Aryee, Pia Hardelid, Linda Wijlaars, Wing Lam Erica Fong, Cyril Geismar, Parth Patel, Madhumita Shrotri, Annalan MD Navaratnam, Eleni Nastouli, Moira Spyer, Ben Killingley, Ingemar Cox, Vasileios Lampos, Rachel A McKendry, Yunzhe Liu, Tao Cheng, Anne M Johnson, Susan Michie, Jo Gibbs, Richard Gilson, Alison Rodger, Robert W Aldridge
发表日期
2021/6/1
期刊
BMJ open
卷号
11
期号
6
页码范围
e048042
出版商
British Medical Journal Publishing Group
简介
Introduction
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has caused significant global mortality and impacted lives around the world. Virus Watch aims to provide evidence on which public health approaches are most likely to be effective in reducing transmission and impact of the virus, and will investigate community incidence, symptom profiles and transmission of COVID-19 in relation to population movement and behaviours.
Methods and analysis
Virus Watch is a household community cohort study of acute respiratory infections in England and Wales and will run from June 2020 to August 2021. The study aims to recruit 50 000 people, including 12 500 from minority ethnic backgrounds, for an online survey cohort and monthly antibody testing using home fingerprick test kits. Nested within this larger study will be a subcohort of 10 000 individuals, including 3000 people from minority ethnic backgrounds. This cohort of …
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