Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-eight Long-term Care Facilities in Fulton County, Georgia

Mass screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection in long-term care facilities revealed significantly higher prevalence of infection in facilities that screened in response to a known infection compared to those that screened as a prevention measure. “Response” facilities had a SARS-CoV-2 prevalence of 28.9%...

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Autores principales: Telford, Carson, Onwubiko, Udodirim, Holland, David, Turner, Kim, Prieto, Juliana, Smith, Sasha, Yoon, Jane, Brown, Wecheeta, Chamberlain, Allison, Gandhi, Neel, Khan, Shamimul, Williams, Steve, Khan, Fazle, Shah, Sarita
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Publicado: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7340197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32637971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.01.20144162
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author Telford, Carson
Onwubiko, Udodirim
Holland, David
Turner, Kim
Prieto, Juliana
Smith, Sasha
Yoon, Jane
Brown, Wecheeta
Chamberlain, Allison
Gandhi, Neel
Khan, Shamimul
Williams, Steve
Khan, Fazle
Shah, Sarita
author_facet Telford, Carson
Onwubiko, Udodirim
Holland, David
Turner, Kim
Prieto, Juliana
Smith, Sasha
Yoon, Jane
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description Mass screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection in long-term care facilities revealed significantly higher prevalence of infection in facilities that screened in response to a known infection compared to those that screened as a prevention measure. “Response” facilities had a SARS-CoV-2 prevalence of 28.9% while “preventive” facilities’ prevalence was 1.6% (p <0.001).
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spelling pubmed-73401972020-07-07 Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-eight Long-term Care Facilities in Fulton County, Georgia Telford, Carson Onwubiko, Udodirim Holland, David Turner, Kim Prieto, Juliana Smith, Sasha Yoon, Jane Brown, Wecheeta Chamberlain, Allison Gandhi, Neel Khan, Shamimul Williams, Steve Khan, Fazle Shah, Sarita medRxiv Article Mass screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection in long-term care facilities revealed significantly higher prevalence of infection in facilities that screened in response to a known infection compared to those that screened as a prevention measure. “Response” facilities had a SARS-CoV-2 prevalence of 28.9% while “preventive” facilities’ prevalence was 1.6% (p <0.001). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2020-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7340197/ /pubmed/32637971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.01.20144162 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/It is made available under a CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) .
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Telford, Carson
Onwubiko, Udodirim
Holland, David
Turner, Kim
Prieto, Juliana
Smith, Sasha
Yoon, Jane
Brown, Wecheeta
Chamberlain, Allison
Gandhi, Neel
Khan, Shamimul
Williams, Steve
Khan, Fazle
Shah, Sarita
Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-eight Long-term Care Facilities in Fulton County, Georgia
title Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-eight Long-term Care Facilities in Fulton County, Georgia
title_full Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-eight Long-term Care Facilities in Fulton County, Georgia
title_fullStr Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-eight Long-term Care Facilities in Fulton County, Georgia
title_full_unstemmed Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-eight Long-term Care Facilities in Fulton County, Georgia
title_short Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-eight Long-term Care Facilities in Fulton County, Georgia
title_sort mass screening for sars-cov-2 infection among residents and staff in twenty-eight long-term care facilities in fulton county, georgia
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7340197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32637971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.01.20144162
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