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Preventing COVID-19 in assisted living facilities: An impossible task pending vaccination roll out

Here, we aimed to describe the clinical outcomes of the residents of a long-term care facility during its closure to visitors and suppliers in response to the first COVID-19 pandemic from February 23 to June 22, 2020, and the results of the facility-wide SARS-CoV-2 testing of residents and staff in...

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Autores principales: Tagliabue, Mario, Ridolfo, Anna Lisa, Pina, Paolo, Rizzolo, Giuseppe, Belbusti, Sonia, Antinori, Spinello, Beltrami, Martina, Cattaneo, Dario, Gervasoni, Cristina
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Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233410/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34221853
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101471
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author Tagliabue, Mario
Ridolfo, Anna Lisa
Pina, Paolo
Rizzolo, Giuseppe
Belbusti, Sonia
Antinori, Spinello
Beltrami, Martina
Cattaneo, Dario
Gervasoni, Cristina
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Ridolfo, Anna Lisa
Pina, Paolo
Rizzolo, Giuseppe
Belbusti, Sonia
Antinori, Spinello
Beltrami, Martina
Cattaneo, Dario
Gervasoni, Cristina
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description Here, we aimed to describe the clinical outcomes of the residents of a long-term care facility during its closure to visitors and suppliers in response to the first COVID-19 pandemic from February 23 to June 22, 2020, and the results of the facility-wide SARS-CoV-2 testing of residents and staff in June 2020 before its partially reopening. Seventy-four residents and 53 members of staff were included in the present study. The staff underwent nasopharyngeal swab tests for SARS-CoV-2, and both the staff and residents underwent serological tests to detect IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. The results of all of the tests were negative. Conversely, 94% of residents and 38% members of the staff were tested positive to the nasopharyngeal swab tests during the second COVID-19 pandemic wave (data collected from November 1 to November 30, 2020). Our experience suggests that, in the presence of a life-threatening pandemic such as SARS-CoV-2 infection, the prompt use of restrictive procedures can prevent the spread and progression of disease in assisted living facilities in the short term but may fail in the long term, especially when the prevalence of the COVID-19 greatly increased outside the facility enhancing the risk of import the disease from outside. SARS-CoV-2 vaccination of residents and staff members would contribute to control/limit the prevalence and the spread of the virus.
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spelling pubmed-82334102021-06-28 Preventing COVID-19 in assisted living facilities: An impossible task pending vaccination roll out Tagliabue, Mario Ridolfo, Anna Lisa Pina, Paolo Rizzolo, Giuseppe Belbusti, Sonia Antinori, Spinello Beltrami, Martina Cattaneo, Dario Gervasoni, Cristina Prev Med Rep Short Communication Here, we aimed to describe the clinical outcomes of the residents of a long-term care facility during its closure to visitors and suppliers in response to the first COVID-19 pandemic from February 23 to June 22, 2020, and the results of the facility-wide SARS-CoV-2 testing of residents and staff in June 2020 before its partially reopening. Seventy-four residents and 53 members of staff were included in the present study. The staff underwent nasopharyngeal swab tests for SARS-CoV-2, and both the staff and residents underwent serological tests to detect IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. The results of all of the tests were negative. Conversely, 94% of residents and 38% members of the staff were tested positive to the nasopharyngeal swab tests during the second COVID-19 pandemic wave (data collected from November 1 to November 30, 2020). Our experience suggests that, in the presence of a life-threatening pandemic such as SARS-CoV-2 infection, the prompt use of restrictive procedures can prevent the spread and progression of disease in assisted living facilities in the short term but may fail in the long term, especially when the prevalence of the COVID-19 greatly increased outside the facility enhancing the risk of import the disease from outside. SARS-CoV-2 vaccination of residents and staff members would contribute to control/limit the prevalence and the spread of the virus. 2021-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8233410/ /pubmed/34221853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101471 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Beltrami, Martina
Cattaneo, Dario
Gervasoni, Cristina
Preventing COVID-19 in assisted living facilities: An impossible task pending vaccination roll out
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233410/
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