{"id":3337,"date":"2021-01-20T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2021-01-21T13:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:58:52","slug":"covid-19-within-a-large-prison-with-high-number-of-vulnerable-adults-in-the-uk-march-to-june-2020-an-outbreak-investigation-and-screening-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/20\/covid-19-within-a-large-prison-with-high-number-of-vulnerable-adults-in-the-uk-march-to-june-2020-an-outbreak-investigation-and-screening-event\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 within a Large Prison with High Number of Vulnerable Adults in the UK, March to June 2020: An Outbreak Investigation and Screening Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak investigation in a large prison with a vulnerable population was quickly contained, with only 58 out of 1,156 residents (5%) and 129 out of 510 staff (25%) developing COVID-19 symptoms. 62% of symptomatic residents were 50 years or older, and frequently reported symptoms were cough with no fever (29%), followed by a cough and fever (16%). Wing I had the highest attack rate (13%). The multi-agency response to the outbreak consisted of placing vulnerable residents into protective isolation, isolating symptomatic and COVID-19 positive residents, distributing informational leaflets to residents, and implementing a one-time universal screening via a PCR test of all staff and residents.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Wilburn et al. (Jan 2021). COVID-19 within a Large Prison with High Number of Vulnerable Adults in the UK, March to June 2020: An Outbreak Investigation and Screening Event. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2021.01.027\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2021.01.027<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SARS-CoV-2 outbreak investigation in a large prison with a vulnerable population was quickly contained, with only 58 out of 1,156 residents (5%) and 129 out of 510 staff (25%) developing COVID-19 symptoms. 62% of symptomatic residents were 50 years or older, and frequently reported symptoms were cough with no fever (29%), followed by a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/20\/covid-19-within-a-large-prison-with-high-number-of-vulnerable-adults-in-the-uk-march-to-june-2020-an-outbreak-investigation-and-screening-event\/\">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":[26],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-prisons","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","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=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}