High attack rate in a large care home outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86, East of England, August 2023

Lucy Reeve; Elise Tessier; Amy Trindall; Aziz NIB Abdul; Nick Andrews; Matthias Futschik; Jessica Rayner; Alexis Didier’Serre; Rebecca Hams; Natalie Groves; Eileen Gallagher; Rachael Graham; Beatrix Kele; Katja Hoschler; Tom Fowler; Edward Blandford; Hamid Mahgoub; Jorg Hoffmann; Mary Ramsay; Gavin Dabrera; Meera Chand; Maria Zambon; Ashley Sharp; Ellen Heinsbroek; Bernal J Lopez

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es.2023.28.39.2300489

High attack rate in a large care home outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86, East of England, August 2023

Lucy Reeve^*
, Elise Tessier
, Amy Trindall
, Aziz NIB Abdul
, Nick Andrews
, Matthias Futschik
, Jessica Rayner
, Alexis Didier’Serre
, Rebecca Hams
, Natalie Groves
, Eileen Gallagher
, Rachael Graham
, Beatrix Kele
, Katja Hoschler
, Tom Fowler
, Edward Blandford
, Hamid Mahgoub
, Jorg Hoffmann
, Mary Ramsay
, Gavin Dabrera

Meera Chand, Maria Zambon, Ashley Sharp, Ellen Heinsbroek, Bernal J Lopez

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Biomedical Sciences

UK Health Security Agency

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We investigated an outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.2.86 in an East of England care home. We identified 45 infections (33 residents, 12 staff), among 38 residents and 66 staff. Twenty-nine of 43 PCR swabs were sequenced, all of which were variant BA.2.86. The attack rate among residents was 87%, 19 were symptomatic, and one was hospitalised. Twenty-four days after the outbreak started, no cases were still unwell. Among the 33 resident cases, 29 had been vaccinated 4 months earlier.

Original language	English
Number of pages	0
Journal	Eurosurveillance
Volume	28
Issue number	39
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2023.28.39.2300489
Publication status	Published - 28 Sept 2023

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Reeve, L., Tessier, E., Trindall, A., Abdul, A. NIB., Andrews, N., Futschik, M., Rayner, J., Didier’Serre, A., Hams, R., Groves, N., Gallagher, E., Graham, R., Kele, B., Hoschler, K., Fowler, T., Blandford, E., Mahgoub, H., Hoffmann, J., Ramsay, M., ... Lopez, B. J. (2023). High attack rate in a large care home outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86, East of England, August 2023. Eurosurveillance, 28(39). https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2023.28.39.2300489

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High attack rate in a large care home outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 BA.2.86, East of England, August 2023

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