If someone in your household has COVID-19, there is only a 1 in 10 chance that you will catch it as well.

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If someone in your household has COVID-19, there is only a 1 in 10 chance that you will also get it, according to the study

  • Boston researchers studied more than 7,000 homes with a Covid case
  • He found that of all the people living with them only 10.1% became infected
  • The study also found a risk of capturing it in the home of someone you live with for people with pre-existing health conditions.

By Joe Pinkstone for Mailonline

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One study found that only one in ten people who catch Covid transmit it to someone they live with.

U.S. researchers analyzed data from more than 7,000 households in Boston and found more than 25,000 people living there between March 4 and May 17, 2020.

In this time period, 7,262 people caught Covid, but only transmitted it to 1,809 people they lived with, a transmission rate of 10.1%.

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One in ten people who capture Covid pass it on to someone they live with, according to a study. U.S. researchers studied data from more than 7,000 households in Boston

One in ten people who capture Covid pass it on to someone they live with, according to a study. U.S. researchers studied data from more than 7,000 households in Boston

The paper also found that the likelihood of transmitting the virus to someone you live with was lower for larger households.

For example, someone in a house with three to five people (one of whom was infected) had a 20% lower risk than a two-person house.

However, the data showed that people living with Covid commodities were more likely to catch the virus from an infected family member.

People living with Covid commodities were more likely to catch the virus from their infected family member. The risk of contracting the virus increased by 31% if a person had asthma

People living with Covid commodities were more likely to catch the virus from their infected family member. The risk of contracting the virus increased by 31% if a person had asthma

The risk of contracting the virus increased by 31% if a person had asthma, 67% in cancer patients, and 35% if a family member was obese.

However, the likelihood of infection was doubled in people with liver disease.

“Independent factors significantly associated with increased risk of transmission included ages over 18 and multiple comorbid conditions,” researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital write in their study, published in the JAMA Open Network.

The results confirm other research that has found a similar secondary attack rate of the virus in households.

A review of 54 studies also published in the JAMA Network Open in December 2020 found a household transmission rate of 16.6%.

A new study by Canadian public health officials published as a prepress in medRxiv found that for the whole of Ontario between July 1 and November 30, 2020, the rate was 19.5%.

Loss of smell and taste can last up to FIVE MONTHS after Covid-19 infection

Patients recovering from Covid who lost their sense of smell and taste after becoming infected with the coronavirus may not see their senses return for up to five months.

Anosmia, the loss or alteration of smell and taste, is formally recognized as a symptom of coronavirus infection.

Data from the Office for National Statistics show that half of coronavirus patients present with symptoms, with 16 and 17% of these experiencing some form of loss of smell and taste, respectively.

Researchers at the University of Quebec studied 813 health workers who hired Covid-19.

More than a third (38%) of those who lost their sanity had not fully regained their taste after five months.

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