{"id":7926,"date":"2020-07-02T20:02:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T03:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7926"},"modified":"2021-03-29T20:03:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:03:28","slug":"mass-screening-for-sars-cov-2-infection-among-residents-and-staff-in-twenty-eight-long-term-care-facilities-in-fulton-county-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/02\/mass-screening-for-sars-cov-2-infection-among-residents-and-staff-in-twenty-eight-long-term-care-facilities-in-fulton-county-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-Eight Long-Term Care Facilities in Fulton County Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A mass screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection in 28 long-term care facilities<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">5,671 residents and staff<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in Fulton County, Georgia, revealed significantly higher prevalence of infection in 15 facilities that screened in response to a known infection compared to 13 facilities\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">screened as a prevention measure\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(i.e.,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">no cases had yet been reported by the time of screening<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(28.9% vs. 1.6%). Of the 1,085 individuals diagnosed with COVID-19, 18% (n=192) required hospitalization and 12% died (n=135).\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Facilities that tested in response to a known infection accounted for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">an\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">overwhelming<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">proportion\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of hospitalizations (186 of 191, 97%) and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">deaths\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(131 of 135, 97%).<\/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=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The authors conclude that th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ese results provide support for active screening to identify cases early\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">before extensive transmission occurs within long-term care facilities<\/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<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Telford et al. (July 2, 2020). Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-Eight Long-Term Care Facilities in Fulton County Georgia.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print downloaded July 2 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.01.20144162\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.01.20144162<\/span><\/a><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>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0A mass screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection in 28 long-term care facilities\u00a0(5,671 residents and staff)\u00a0in Fulton County, Georgia, revealed significantly higher prevalence of infection in 15 facilities that screened in response to a known infection compared to 13 facilities\u00a0that\u00a0screened as a prevention measure\u00a0(i.e.,\u00a0no cases had yet been reported by the time of screening)\u00a0(28.9%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/02\/mass-screening-for-sars-cov-2-infection-among-residents-and-staff-in-twenty-eight-long-term-care-facilities-in-fulton-county-georgia\/\">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":[19],"class_list":["post-7926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926","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=7926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7927,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7926\/revisions\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7926"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}