Halting a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a US Veterans Affairs nursing home

A Veterans Affairs long term care facility on Long Island New York was confronted with a COVID-19 outbreak in late March to Mid-April 2020. Faced with a dwindling supply of PPE, the Infection Control team distributed supplies saved for a possible Ebola outbreak. A COVID unit was created within the n...

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Autores principales: Psevdos, George, Papamanoli, Aikaterini, Barrett, Nancy, Bailey, Lisa, Thorne, Monique, Ford, Florence, Lobo, Zeena
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7607299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33157181
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.10.022
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description A Veterans Affairs long term care facility on Long Island New York was confronted with a COVID-19 outbreak in late March to Mid-April 2020. Faced with a dwindling supply of PPE, the Infection Control team distributed supplies saved for a possible Ebola outbreak. A COVID unit was created within the nursing home facilitating the geographic isolation of cases; universal testing of residents and employees allowed for the implementation of proper quarantine measures. It was a multidisciplinary team approach led by the Infection Control team that successfully contained this outbreak.
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spelling pubmed-76072992020-11-03 Halting a SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in a US Veterans Affairs nursing home Psevdos, George Papamanoli, Aikaterini Barrett, Nancy Bailey, Lisa Thorne, Monique Ford, Florence Lobo, Zeena Am J Infect Control Brief Report A Veterans Affairs long term care facility on Long Island New York was confronted with a COVID-19 outbreak in late March to Mid-April 2020. Faced with a dwindling supply of PPE, the Infection Control team distributed supplies saved for a possible Ebola outbreak. A COVID unit was created within the nursing home facilitating the geographic isolation of cases; universal testing of residents and employees allowed for the implementation of proper quarantine measures. It was a multidisciplinary team approach led by the Infection Control team that successfully contained this outbreak. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-01 2020-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7607299/ /pubmed/33157181 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2020.10.022 Text en © 2020 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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