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cord-335907-93gwmo0v	de Man, Peter	Outbreak of COVID-19 in a nursing home associated with aerosol transmission as a result of inadequate ventilation	2020-08-28		.txt	text/plain	564	57	73	title: Outbreak of COVID-19 in a nursing home associated with aerosol transmission as a result of inadequate ventilation Recently, we were involved in an outbreak in a Dutch nursing home that was likely to be the result of aerosol transmission in a setting of inadequate ventilation. In total, 17 (81%) residents from one of the seven wards in a nursing home with psychogeriatric residents were diagnosed with COVID-19 as confirmed by RT-PCR ( Figure 1 ) [2] . To prevent and control COVID-19 infections all HCWs in this nursing home had been assigned to specific wards and did wear surgical masks during patient contacts since April 26, 2020 [4] . Because of the remarkable increase of COVID-19 infections in a very short time period despite the use of surgical masks, the ventilation system of the outbreak ward was investigated in addition to routine source and contact tracing. In this situation, low CO2 production by inactive nursing home patients might have limited the ventilation with outside air.	./cache/cord-335907-93gwmo0v.txt	./txt/cord-335907-93gwmo0v.txt