{"id":7081,"date":"2020-05-22T16:35:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T23:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T23:36:11","slug":"universal-and-serial-laboratory-testing-for-sars-cov-2-at-a-long-term-care-skilled-nursing-facility-for-veterans-los-angeles-california-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/22\/universal-and-serial-laboratory-testing-for-sars-cov-2-at-a-long-term-care-skilled-nursing-facility-for-veterans-los-angeles-california-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal and Serial Laboratory Testing for SARS-CoV-2 at a Long-Term Care Skilled Nursing Facility for Veterans \u2014 Los Angeles, California 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n March 2020,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">two residents of a long-term care skilled nursing facility in the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System tested positive for COVID-19. Subsequently, all residents underwent serial (approximately weekly) nasopharyngeal PCR\u00a0testing\u00a0and all clinical\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and nonclinical staff were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">screened through April 10. Positive test results were found in 19 of 99 (19%) residents and 8 of the 136 (6%)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0staff<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0 Fourteen of the 19 residents infected residents were asymptomatic for COVID-19 at the time of testing, among whom 8 developed symptoms after specimen collection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">No further cases were identified\u00a0on\u00a0subsequent testing, representing successful containment of the outbreak through case detection by serial PCR testing.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dora et al. (2020). Universal and Serial Laboratory Testing for SARS-CoV-2 at a Long-Term Care Skilled Nursing Facility for Veterans \u2014 Los Angeles, California 2020<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. MMWR.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6921e1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6921e1<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2020,\u00a0two residents of a long-term care skilled nursing facility in the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System tested positive for COVID-19. Subsequently, all residents underwent serial (approximately weekly) nasopharyngeal PCR\u00a0testing\u00a0and all clinical\u00a0and nonclinical staff were\u00a0screened through April 10. Positive test results were found in 19 of 99 (19%) residents and 8 of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/22\/universal-and-serial-laboratory-testing-for-sars-cov-2-at-a-long-term-care-skilled-nursing-facility-for-veterans-los-angeles-california-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-7081","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\/7081","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=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7082,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions\/7082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}