{"id":1613,"date":"2020-10-16T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2020-10-19T15:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:35:56","slug":"heterogeneity-in-testing-diagnosis-and-outcome-in-sars-cov-2-infection-across-outbreak-settings-in-the-greater-toronto-area-canada-an-observational-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/16\/heterogeneity-in-testing-diagnosis-and-outcome-in-sars-cov-2-infection-across-outbreak-settings-in-the-greater-toronto-area-canada-an-observational-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Heterogeneity in Testing, Diagnosis and Outcome in SARS-CoV-2 Infection across Outbreak Settings in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada: An Observational Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A population-based prospective cohort study of residents of long-term care homes, people living in shelters, and members of the general population in Toronto, Canada found that residents of long-term care homes were 2.4 times more likely to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 than the general population and those who received a diagnosis of COVID-19 were 1.4 times more likely to die. The study found that cumulatively, the diagnosed cases per capita was 64-fold higher among long-term care home residents and 19-fold higher among shelter residents, compared with the rest of the population.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Wang et al. (Oct 9, 2020). Heterogeneity in Testing, Diagnosis and Outcome in SARS-CoV-2 Infection across Outbreak Settings in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada: An Observational Study. CMAJ Open.<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.9778\/cmajo.20200213\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.9778\/cmajo.20200213<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A population-based prospective cohort study of residents of long-term care homes, people living in shelters, and members of the general population in Toronto, Canada found that residents of long-term care homes were 2.4 times more likely to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 than the general population and those who received a diagnosis of COVID-19 were 1.4&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/16\/heterogeneity-in-testing-diagnosis-and-outcome-in-sars-cov-2-infection-across-outbreak-settings-in-the-greater-toronto-area-canada-an-observational-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92,54],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-canada","tag-health-care-setting","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}