{"id":794,"date":"2020-09-09T13:58:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T20:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=794"},"modified":"2020-09-10T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T21:13:10","slug":"covid-19-prevalence-among-people-experiencing-homelessness-and-homelessness-service-staff-during-early-community-transmission-in-atlanta-georgia-april-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/09\/covid-19-prevalence-among-people-experiencing-homelessness-and-homelessness-service-staff-during-early-community-transmission-in-atlanta-georgia-april-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Prevalence among People Experiencing Homelessness and Homelessness Service Staff during Early Community Transmission in Atlanta, Georgia, April-May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In Atlanta, Georgia, people experiencing homelessness who were living in shelters had higher SARS-CoV-2 prevalence compared with those living unsheltered (2% vs. 0.5%). These findings were based on a survey of 2,860 individuals at 24 shelters and 9 unsheltered outreach events undergoing SARS-CoV-2 testing (April 7-May 6, 2020). Prevalence by shelter ranged from 0% to 28%. Repeat testing 3-4 weeks later at 4 shelters documented decreased SARS-CoV-2 prevalence (0%-4%). The authors suggest that facility-wide testing in congregate settings for identification and isolation of COVID-19 cases is an important strategy to interrupt SARS-CoV-2 transmission.<em>Yoon et al. (Sept 8, 2020). COVID-19 Prevalence among People Experiencing Homelessness and Homelessness Service Staff during Early Community Transmission in Atlanta, Georgia, April-May 2020. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"http:\/\/discover.uw.edu\/yqnAZA080y0xOQr31i00000\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1340<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Atlanta, Georgia, people experiencing homelessness who were living in shelters had higher SARS-CoV-2 prevalence compared with those living unsheltered (2% vs. 0.5%). These findings were based on a survey of 2,860 individuals at 24 shelters and 9 unsheltered outreach events undergoing SARS-CoV-2 testing (April 7-May 6, 2020). Prevalence by shelter ranged from 0% to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/09\/covid-19-prevalence-among-people-experiencing-homelessness-and-homelessness-service-staff-during-early-community-transmission-in-atlanta-georgia-april-may-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}