{"id":8211,"date":"2020-07-14T11:08:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:09:22","slug":"outcomes-of-universal-covid-19-testing-following-detection-of-incident-cases-in-11-long-term-care-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/14\/outcomes-of-universal-covid-19-testing-following-detection-of-incident-cases-in-11-long-term-care-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Outcomes of Universal COVID-19 Testing Following Detection of Incident Cases in 11 Long-Term Care Facilities"},"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\">Among 11 Maryland long-term care facilities, universal testing detect<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0354 additional cases (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">40<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% of those tested) in addition to 153 cases previously identified via targeted symptom-based testing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Fifty-five percent<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">persons\u00a0who tested positive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were asymptomatic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Follow-up screening after 2-weeks identified an additional\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">117\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2 cases,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">87%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of whom\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were asymptomatic.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Follow-up screening after 2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">weeks identified an additional\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">117\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2 cases,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">87%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of whom\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were asymptomatic.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The autho<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">r<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s conclude that t<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">hese findings suggest\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a potential benefit of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">more widespread testing in COVID-19 &#8220;hot spots.&#8221;<\/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\">Bigelow et al. (July 14, 2020). Outcomes of Universal COVID-19 Testing Following Detection of Incident Cases in 11 Long-Term Care Facilities. JAMA Internal Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.3738\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamainternmed.2020.3738<\/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>Among 11 Maryland long-term care facilities, universal testing detected\u00a0354 additional cases (40% of those tested) in addition to 153 cases previously identified via targeted symptom-based testing. Fifty-five percent\u00a0of\u00a0persons\u00a0who tested positive\u00a0were asymptomatic.\u00a0Follow-up screening after 2-weeks identified an additional\u00a0117\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 cases,\u00a087%\u00a0of whom\u00a0were asymptomatic.\u00a0Follow-up screening after 2\u00a0weeks identified an additional\u00a0117\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 cases,\u00a087%\u00a0of whom\u00a0were asymptomatic.\u00a0The authors conclude that these findings suggest\u00a0a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/14\/outcomes-of-universal-covid-19-testing-following-detection-of-incident-cases-in-11-long-term-care-facilities\/\">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-8211","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\/8211","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=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8212,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions\/8212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}