Fig 1.
Flow diagram of study site enrolment and intervention implementation.
Fig 2.
Stepped graph showing the number of active care homes taking part in the trial over time (dark blue line, left y-axis), along with the daily number of COVID-19 linked hospital admissions in England (red line, right y-axis).
Background shading indicates the change in national staff testing policy from symptomatic plus outbreak testing (light blue) to limited symptomatic testing only for those eligible for antiviral therapeutics (yellow). National admissions data sourced from the UK Government COVID-19 Dashboard, processed by Our World in Data.
Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the randomised care homes by trial arm.
Fig 3.
Line graph of the percentage of staff at each participating home with at least one SARS-CoV-2 test recorded in the national testing dataset within each week of the study.
Table 2.
Summary of primary and secondary outcomes in control and intervention arms.