{"id":558,"date":"2020-08-27T13:35:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T20:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=558"},"modified":"2020-09-01T13:36:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T20:36:55","slug":"notes-from-the-field-universal-statewide-laboratory-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-nursing-homes-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/27\/notes-from-the-field-universal-statewide-laboratory-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-nursing-homes-west-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Field: Universal Statewide Laboratory Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in Nursing Homes \u2014 West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>During March 17\u2013April 16, 2020, 307 COVID-19 cases were reported among residents and staff members in 7 nursing homes in West Virginia, 4 of which had outbreaks involving 20\u201340 residents. In response, the governor ordered universal testing among all 123 nursing homes in the state (April 21\u2013May 8), which resulted in the identification of 42 COVID-19 incident cases in 28 (23%) nursing homes, none of which had previously experienced an outbreak. The 42 cases occurred in 11\/8,911 residents (0.1%) and 31\/13,687 staff members (0.2%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>McBee et al. (Aug 28, 2020). Notes from the Field: Universal Statewide Laboratory Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in Nursing Homes \u2014 West Virginia, April 21\u2013May 8, 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6934a4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6934a4<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During March 17\u2013April 16, 2020, 307 COVID-19 cases were reported among residents and staff members in 7 nursing homes in West Virginia, 4 of which had outbreaks involving 20\u201340 residents. In response, the governor ordered universal testing among all 123 nursing homes in the state (April 21\u2013May 8), which resulted in the identification of 42&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/27\/notes-from-the-field-universal-statewide-laboratory-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-nursing-homes-west-virginia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,38],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","tag-transmission","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}