{"id":683,"date":"2020-09-02T11:25:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T18:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=683"},"modified":"2020-09-08T11:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T18:26:49","slug":"cross-sectional-prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-among-skilled-nursing-facility-employees-and-residents-across-facilities-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/02\/cross-sectional-prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-among-skilled-nursing-facility-employees-and-residents-across-facilities-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Sectional Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Among Skilled Nursing Facility Employees and Residents Across Facilities in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Between March 29 and May 13, 2020, 16 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in the Seattle area (1,583 employees and 1,208 residents) were tested for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR, of which 11 (69%) SNFs had one or more employees or residents positive. Overall prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 was 3% among employees and 9% among residents. Despite facility policies that employees with new respiratory symptoms should not come to work, 42 (3%) employees reported respiratory symptoms (22 with cough, 39 with sore throat, 7 with fever) during the on-site testing. Out of 13 who tested positive and had symptom information available, 9 (69%) were asymptomatic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Weil et al. (Sept 1, 2020). Cross-Sectional Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Among Skilled Nursing Facility Employees and Residents Across Facilities in Seattle. Journal of General Internal Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11606-020-06165-7\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11606-020-06165-7<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between March 29 and May 13, 2020, 16 skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) in the Seattle area (1,583 employees and 1,208 residents) were tested for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR, of which 11 (69%) SNFs had one or more employees or residents positive. Overall prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 was 3% among employees and 9% among residents. Despite facility policies&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/02\/cross-sectional-prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-among-skilled-nursing-facility-employees-and-residents-across-facilities-in-seattle\/\">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":[60,38],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-seattle","tag-transmission","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}