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2. Infectivity - Wikipedia

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   More specifically, infectivity is the extent to which the pathogen can enter, survive, and multiply in a host. It is measured by the ratio of the number of people who become infected to the total number exposed to the pathogen. [1] Infectivity has been shown to positively correlate with virulence, in plants. This means that as a pathogen's ...

3. Hospital-acquired infection - Wikipedia

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   Such an infection can be acquired in a hospital, nursing home, rehabilitation facility, outpatient clinic, diagnostic laboratory or other clinical settings. A number of dynamic processes can bring contamination into operating rooms and other areas within nosocomial settings.

4. Outline of infectious disease concepts - Wikipedia

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   The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to concepts related to infectious diseases in humans.. Infection – transmission, entry/invasion after evading/overcoming defense, establishment, and replication of disease-causing microscopic organisms (pathogens) inside a host organism, and the reaction of host tissues to them and to the toxins they produce.

5. Nursing home care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Administration of nursing homes are the state to local department of health direct to local contracts, generally for-profit. [citation needed] Depending on size, staff may include those responsible for individual departments (i.e., accounting, human resources, etc.). Nursing home administrators are required to be licensed to run nursing facilities.

6. Statistics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

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   Most nursing homes did not have easy access to testing, making the actual number unknown. [89] President Trump established a Coronavirus Commission for Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes. [ 90 ] [ 91 ] Subsequently, a number of states including Maryland [ 92 ] and New Jersey [ 93 ] reported their own estimates of deaths at nursing homes ...

7. Isolation (health care) - Wikipedia

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   Depending on the contagious disease, transmission can occur within a person's home, school, worksite, health care facility, and other shared spaces within the community. Even if a person takes all necessary precautions to protect oneself from disease, such as being up-to-date with vaccines and practicing good hygiene , he or she can still get sick.

8. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on long-term care facilities

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   A 'visiting window' at a nursing home in Wetherby, West Yorkshire designed to reduce transmission to vulnerable residents. The death rate in care homes accelerated in April. Beginning 29 April, health secretary Matt Hancock said the government would begin daily reports of separate statistics for these facilities.

9. Nursing home - Wikipedia

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   Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the institutions are public or private, and whether they provide mostly assisted living , or nursing care and emergency medical care .