{"id":7445,"date":"2020-06-09T14:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7445"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:02:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:02:23","slug":"pandemic-planning-in-homeless-shelters-a-pilot-study-of-a-covid-19-testing-and-support-program-to-mitigate-the-risk-of-covid-19-outbreaks-in-congregate-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/09\/pandemic-planning-in-homeless-shelters-a-pilot-study-of-a-covid-19-testing-and-support-program-to-mitigate-the-risk-of-covid-19-outbreaks-in-congregate-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandemic Planning in Homeless Shelters: A Pilot Study of a COVID-19 Testing and Support Program to Mitigate the Risk of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Congregate Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a homeless shelter system in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hamilton,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Canada,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bodkin<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al. tested 104 residents\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0141 staff for COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0by RT-PCR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and found 1%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">residents<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">5%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of staff had prevalent SARS-CoV-2 infection. They found\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1\u00a0case of secondary\u00a0spread.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The i<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nvestigators\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">suggest that<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0shelter restructuring, isolating confirmed cases and those awaiting test results, and providing rapid test results\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">may have\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">helped\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">preventing\u00a0an outbreak.<\/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\">Bodkin<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (June 8, 2020). Pandemic Planning in Homeless Shelters: A Pilot Study of a COVID-19 Testing and Support Program to Mitigate the Risk of COVID-19 Outbreaks in Congregate Settings. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa743\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa743<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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 a homeless shelter system in\u00a0Hamilton,\u00a0Canada,\u00a0Bodkin\u00a0et al. tested 104 residents\u00a0and\u00a0141 staff for COVID-19\u00a0by RT-PCR\u00a0and found 1%\u00a0of\u00a0residents\u00a0and\u00a05%\u00a0of staff had prevalent SARS-CoV-2 infection. They found\u00a01\u00a0case of secondary\u00a0spread.\u00a0The investigators\u00a0suggest that\u00a0shelter restructuring, isolating confirmed cases and those awaiting test results, and providing rapid test results\u00a0may have\u00a0helped\u00a0to\u00a0preventing\u00a0an outbreak.\u00a0 Bodkin\u00a0et al. (June 8, 2020). Pandemic Planning in Homeless Shelters: A Pilot&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/09\/pandemic-planning-in-homeless-shelters-a-pilot-study-of-a-covid-19-testing-and-support-program-to-mitigate-the-risk-of-covid-19-outbreaks-in-congregate-settings\/\">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-7445","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\/7445","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=7445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7446,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7445\/revisions\/7446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7445"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}