{"id":8326,"date":"2020-07-17T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T22:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2021-04-02T15:20:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T22:20:06","slug":"temperature-in-nursing-home-residents-systematically-tested-for-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/17\/temperature-in-nursing-home-residents-systematically-tested-for-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Temperature in Nursing Home Residents Systematically Tested for SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among 7,325 residents of Community Living Centers operated by the Veterans Administration, which perform daily\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">symptoms\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">screening for COVID-19 and conducted universal\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RT-PCR\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">testing on April 14, SARS-CoV-2 was detected in 6%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of residents<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Temperatures\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were elevated in positive<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0participants relative to negatives from<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a07 days before testing and remained elevated during the\u00a014 day\u00a0follow-up, but only 2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">7<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% of positives met the fever threshold of 38<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00b0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">C during the study period.\u00a0<\/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\">Rudolph et al. (July 2020). Temperature in Nursing Home Residents Systematically Tested for SARS-CoV-2. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jamda.2020.06.009\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jamda.2020.06.009<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><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>Among 7,325 residents of Community Living Centers operated by the Veterans Administration, which perform daily\u00a0symptoms\u00a0screening for COVID-19 and conducted universal\u00a0RT-PCR\u00a0testing on April 14, SARS-CoV-2 was detected in 6%\u00a0of residents. Temperatures\u00a0were elevated in positive\u00a0participants relative to negatives from\u00a07 days before testing and remained elevated during the\u00a014 day\u00a0follow-up, but only 27% of positives met the fever threshold&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/17\/temperature-in-nursing-home-residents-systematically-tested-for-sars-cov-2\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-8326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326","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=8326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8327,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8326\/revisions\/8327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8326"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}