{"id":5093,"date":"2021-02-24T18:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T02:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5093"},"modified":"2021-02-24T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T02:10:44","slug":"occupational-exposures-and-mitigation-strategies-among-homeless-shelter-workers-at-risk-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/24\/occupational-exposures-and-mitigation-strategies-among-homeless-shelter-workers-at-risk-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupational Exposures and Mitigation Strategies among Homeless Shelter Workers at Risk of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] <\/i>An online survey of 106 workers at homeless shelters in 17 shelter networks in Washington, Massachusetts, Utah, Maryland and Georgia found that 15% of workers reported testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, with 80% believing they were infected at work. The survey was conducted to assess occupational exposures to SARS-CoV-2, characterize job practices, and assess COVID-19 mitigation measures in the workplace. All shelter networks had implemented at least one prevention measure. Nearly 40% of workers reported having close contact with a person with known SARS-CoV-2 infection and believed the contact occurred at work. Reported frequent close contact with clients was significantly associated with testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 (prevalence ratio=3.97).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Rao et al. (Feb 23, 2021). Occupational Exposures and Mitigation Strategies among Homeless Shelter Workers at Risk of COVID-19. Pre-print downloaded Feb 24 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.22.21251646\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.22.21251646<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] An online survey of 106 workers at homeless shelters in 17 shelter networks in Washington, Massachusetts, Utah, Maryland and Georgia found that 15% of workers reported testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, with 80% believing they were infected at work. The survey was conducted to assess occupational exposures to SARS-CoV-2, characterize job practices, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/24\/occupational-exposures-and-mitigation-strategies-among-homeless-shelter-workers-at-risk-of-covid-19\/\">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":[150,29,68],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-congregate-settings","tag-public-health","tag-washington","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","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=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5094,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}