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SARS-CoV-2 in assisted living: Mortality and asymptomatic infection

In response to a rapid rise in mortality within assisted living, facility-wide resident testing found 42% of 182 residents had SARS-CoV-2 infection; 68% of which were asymptomatic for 14 days before and after testing. Resident testing was a critical infection control measure needed to control transm...

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Autores principales: Montecalvo, Marisa A, Amler, Sherlita, Cudjoe, Thomas K.M., Smittle, Lori, D'Ascanio, Antonella, Huang, Ada, Recchia, Renee, Hewlett, Dial
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of National Medical Association. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8720532/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35131082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnma.2021.12.012
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description In response to a rapid rise in mortality within assisted living, facility-wide resident testing found 42% of 182 residents had SARS-CoV-2 infection; 68% of which were asymptomatic for 14 days before and after testing. Resident testing was a critical infection control measure needed to control transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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spelling pubmed-87205322022-01-03 SARS-CoV-2 in assisted living: Mortality and asymptomatic infection Montecalvo, Marisa A Amler, Sherlita Cudjoe, Thomas K.M. Smittle, Lori D'Ascanio, Antonella Huang, Ada Recchia, Renee Hewlett, Dial J Natl Med Assoc Article In response to a rapid rise in mortality within assisted living, facility-wide resident testing found 42% of 182 residents had SARS-CoV-2 infection; 68% of which were asymptomatic for 14 days before and after testing. Resident testing was a critical infection control measure needed to control transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of National Medical Association. 2022-04 2022-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8720532/ /pubmed/35131082 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnma.2021.12.012 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of National Medical Association. 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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Hewlett, Dial
SARS-CoV-2 in assisted living: Mortality and asymptomatic infection
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