{"id":1259,"date":"2020-09-30T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T17:38:08","slug":"comparison-of-infection-control-strategies-to-reduce-covid-19-outbreaks-in-homeless-shelters-in-the-united-states-a-simulation-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/30\/comparison-of-infection-control-strategies-to-reduce-covid-19-outbreaks-in-homeless-shelters-in-the-united-states-a-simulation-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of Infection Control Strategies to Reduce COVID-19 Outbreaks in Homeless Shelters in the United States a Simulation Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A microsimulation model calibrated to PCR data from outbreaks in 5 homeless shelters found that while infection control strategies can prevent outbreaks in low-risk settings, they may be unlikely to do so in high-risk settings. The model found that in shelters with low (R<sub>0<\/sub> = 1.5), moderate (R<sub>0<\/sub> = 2.9), and high (R0 = 6.2) risk of transmission, the probability of averting an outbreak over 30 days given the use of combined daily symptom-based screening was 0.68, twice-weekly PCR testing was 0.40, and universal masking was 0.08.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chapman et al. (Sept 29, 2020). Comparison of Infection Control Strategies to Reduce COVID-19 Outbreaks in Homeless Shelters in the United States a Simulation Study. Pre-print downloaded Sept 30 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.28.20203166\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.09.28.20203166<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A microsimulation model calibrated to PCR data from outbreaks in 5 homeless shelters found that while infection control strategies can prevent outbreaks in low-risk settings, they may be unlikely to do so in high-risk settings. The model found that in shelters with low (R0 = 1.5), moderate (R0 = 2.9), and high&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/30\/comparison-of-infection-control-strategies-to-reduce-covid-19-outbreaks-in-homeless-shelters-in-the-united-states-a-simulation-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,39,75,76],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-candidate","tag-modeling","tag-report","tag-summarize","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1260,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}