How likely is it to spread COVID-19 to people in the same home as someone who tested positive? One research team estimates nearly 1 in 5 can expect to become infected and the new coronavirus appears to is more transmissible in households than SARS or MERS.
April 30, 2020 --"It was the one thing I was hoping wouldn't happen, and now it has."
According to a new study, fear of transmission to household members is realistic, says Yang Yang, PhD, associate professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida, who led the research to evaluate how commonly patients transmit COVID-19 to close contacts. One of the most surprising findings, Yang says, is that ''the infectivity is pretty high during the incubation period, when the patient didn't show any symptoms. The infectivity rate is as high during the asymptomatic period as during the symptomatic period.
In mid-March, Horsley and her daughter Samantha Jing, 15, flew from New York to their home in Tucson, AZ, on Saturday, March 14, joining her husband Markus Redding, 60, and son Alexander Redding, 21, who were already there. She worked on her computer, talked to her family through the door, and kept hoping no one else would become infected. Her husband ordered food for delivery or neighbors would bring supplies and leave them on the driveway, she says."We were told our family should not leave the house." They followed those instructions to the letter, she says.
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