COVID-19: The forgotten cases of hidden exiles

PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH: We describe two interventions to screen for SARS-CoV-2 in two squats of exiled persons in France following the diagnosis of symptomatic COVID-19 cases. PRINCIPAL RESULTS: In squat A, 50 (25%) persons were screened; 19 were found positive, and three accepted a transfer. In sq...

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Autores principales: Le Bihan, C., Faucherre, V., Le Moing, V., Mehenni, A., Nantes, D., Da Silva, A., Jaume, C., Lassalle, F., Makinson, A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Masson SAS. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7826099/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33521773
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idnow.2021.01.008
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author Le Bihan, C.
Faucherre, V.
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Mehenni, A.
Nantes, D.
Da Silva, A.
Jaume, C.
Lassalle, F.
Makinson, A.
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description PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH: We describe two interventions to screen for SARS-CoV-2 in two squats of exiled persons in France following the diagnosis of symptomatic COVID-19 cases. PRINCIPAL RESULTS: In squat A, 50 (25%) persons were screened; 19 were found positive, and three accepted a transfer. In squat B, 65 (54%) persons were screened at three different times, and only two were found positive. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS: Discrepant outcomes may reflect different levels of sanitation, prevention, and acceptance of interventions. Refusal to be transferred to specific COVID-19 homes if tested positive underscores the importance of local sanitary solutions for all. Cross-curricular strategies addressed to exiled persons are essential means of providing medical and public health solutions designed to deter COVID-19 outbreaks in these populations.
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spelling pubmed-78260992021-01-25 COVID-19: The forgotten cases of hidden exiles Le Bihan, C. Faucherre, V. Le Moing, V. Mehenni, A. Nantes, D. Da Silva, A. Jaume, C. Lassalle, F. Makinson, A. Infect Dis Now Short Communication PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH: We describe two interventions to screen for SARS-CoV-2 in two squats of exiled persons in France following the diagnosis of symptomatic COVID-19 cases. PRINCIPAL RESULTS: In squat A, 50 (25%) persons were screened; 19 were found positive, and three accepted a transfer. In squat B, 65 (54%) persons were screened at three different times, and only two were found positive. MAJOR CONCLUSIONS: Discrepant outcomes may reflect different levels of sanitation, prevention, and acceptance of interventions. Refusal to be transferred to specific COVID-19 homes if tested positive underscores the importance of local sanitary solutions for all. Cross-curricular strategies addressed to exiled persons are essential means of providing medical and public health solutions designed to deter COVID-19 outbreaks in these populations. Elsevier Masson SAS. 2021-06 2021-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7826099/ /pubmed/33521773 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idnow.2021.01.008 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. 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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Makinson, A.
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