Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) screening among symptom-free healthcare workers

Transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is possible among symptom-free individuals. Patients are avoiding medically necessary healthcare visits for fear of becoming infected in the healthcare setting. We screened 489 symptom-free healthcare workers for SARS-CoV-2...

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Autores principales: Demmer, Ryan T., Ulrich, Angela K., Wiggen, Talia D., Strickland, Ali, Naumchik, Brianna M., Kulasingam, Shalini, Stovitz, Steven D., Marotz, Clarisse, Belda-Ferre, Pedro, Humphrey, Greg, De Hoff, Peter, Laurent, Louise, Kline, Susan, Knight, Rob
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2021
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8185420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33706827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.81
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author Demmer, Ryan T.
Ulrich, Angela K.
Wiggen, Talia D.
Strickland, Ali
Naumchik, Brianna M.
Kulasingam, Shalini
Stovitz, Steven D.
Marotz, Clarisse
Belda-Ferre, Pedro
Humphrey, Greg
De Hoff, Peter
Laurent, Louise
Kline, Susan
Knight, Rob
author_facet Demmer, Ryan T.
Ulrich, Angela K.
Wiggen, Talia D.
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Naumchik, Brianna M.
Kulasingam, Shalini
Stovitz, Steven D.
Marotz, Clarisse
Belda-Ferre, Pedro
Humphrey, Greg
De Hoff, Peter
Laurent, Louise
Kline, Susan
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description Transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is possible among symptom-free individuals. Patients are avoiding medically necessary healthcare visits for fear of becoming infected in the healthcare setting. We screened 489 symptom-free healthcare workers for SARS-CoV-2 and found no positive results, strongly suggesting that the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 was <1%.
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spelling pubmed-81854202021-06-09 Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) screening among symptom-free healthcare workers Demmer, Ryan T. Ulrich, Angela K. Wiggen, Talia D. Strickland, Ali Naumchik, Brianna M. Kulasingam, Shalini Stovitz, Steven D. Marotz, Clarisse Belda-Ferre, Pedro Humphrey, Greg De Hoff, Peter Laurent, Louise Kline, Susan Knight, Rob Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication Transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is possible among symptom-free individuals. Patients are avoiding medically necessary healthcare visits for fear of becoming infected in the healthcare setting. We screened 489 symptom-free healthcare workers for SARS-CoV-2 and found no positive results, strongly suggesting that the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 was <1%. Cambridge University Press 2021-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8185420/ /pubmed/33706827 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.81 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Concise Communication
Demmer, Ryan T.
Ulrich, Angela K.
Wiggen, Talia D.
Strickland, Ali
Naumchik, Brianna M.
Kulasingam, Shalini
Stovitz, Steven D.
Marotz, Clarisse
Belda-Ferre, Pedro
Humphrey, Greg
De Hoff, Peter
Laurent, Louise
Kline, Susan
Knight, Rob
Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) screening among symptom-free healthcare workers
title Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) screening among symptom-free healthcare workers
title_full Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) screening among symptom-free healthcare workers
title_fullStr Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) screening among symptom-free healthcare workers
title_full_unstemmed Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) screening among symptom-free healthcare workers
title_short Severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) screening among symptom-free healthcare workers
title_sort severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (sars-cov-2) screening among symptom-free healthcare workers
topic Concise Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8185420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33706827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.81
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