{"id":5510,"date":"2020-03-27T16:22:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T00:22:59","slug":"asymptomatic-and-presymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-in-residents-of-a-long-term-care-skilled-nursing-facility-king-county-washington-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/27\/asymptomatic-and-presymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-in-residents-of-a-long-term-care-skilled-nursing-facility-king-county-washington-march-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Residents of a Long-Term Care Skilled Nursing Facility \u2014 King County, Washington, March 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Symptom-based screening in Skilled Nursing Facilities, which often treat elderly and high-risk patients, could fail to identify approximately half of residents with COVID-19.\u00a0 The authors indicate that these and other long-term care facilities should take proactive steps to prevent introduction of SARS-CoV-2, and also provide recommendations for response after a facility has confirmed a COVID-19 case.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kimball et al. (Mar 27, 2020). Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Residents of a Long-Term Care Skilled Nursing Facility \u2014 King County, Washington, March 2020.\u00a0 MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/pdfs\/mm6913e1-H.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/pdfs\/mm6913e1-H.pdf<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symptom-based screening in Skilled Nursing Facilities, which often treat elderly and high-risk patients, could fail to identify approximately half of residents with COVID-19.\u00a0 The authors indicate that these and other long-term care facilities should take proactive steps to prevent introduction of SARS-CoV-2, and also provide recommendations for response after a facility has confirmed a COVID-19&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/27\/asymptomatic-and-presymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-in-residents-of-a-long-term-care-skilled-nursing-facility-king-county-washington-march-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-5510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5511,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions\/5511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}