{"id":5945,"date":"2020-04-15T15:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T22:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:35:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:35:33","slug":"ovid-19-outbreak-at-a-large-homeless-shelter-in-boston-implications-for-universal-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/15\/ovid-19-outbreak-at-a-large-homeless-shelter-in-boston-implications-for-universal-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 outbreak at a large homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Baggett et al describe rapid transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in homeless shelter in Boston, where 36% (147\/408) inhabitants tested positive. Positive individuals were more likely to be male, but did not differ significantly from COVID-negative individuals with respect to other demographic and clinical characteristics. Signs like cough, shortness of breath, and fever were all uncommon among COVID-positive individuals. This report illustrates the rapidity with which COVID-19 can be widely transmitted without a clearly overt clinical disease episodes in a homeless shelter setting.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Baggett et al. (April 15, 2020). COVID-19 outbreak at a large homeless shelter in Boston: Implications for universal testing. Pre-print downloaded Apr 15 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.12.20059618\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.12.20059618<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baggett et al describe rapid transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in homeless shelter in Boston, where 36% (147\/408) inhabitants tested positive. Positive individuals were more likely to be male, but did not differ significantly from COVID-negative individuals with respect to other demographic and clinical characteristics. Signs like cough, shortness of breath, and fever were all uncommon among&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/15\/ovid-19-outbreak-at-a-large-homeless-shelter-in-boston-implications-for-universal-testing\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","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=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5965,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions\/5965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}