{"id":8397,"date":"2020-07-21T16:08:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8397"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:09:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:09:05","slug":"lessons-from-mass-testing-for-covid-19-in-long-term-care-facilities-for-the-elderly-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/21\/lessons-from-mass-testing-for-covid-19-in-long-term-care-facilities-for-the-elderly-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons from Mass-Testing for COVID-19 in Long Term Care Facilities for the Elderly in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Louie et al. describe the results of surveillance, outbreak response, and control measures to prevent COVID-19 in 4 long term care facilities (LCTF) in San Francisco early in the pandemic. Facility-wide testing of asymptomatic health care workers (HCWs) and residents in these 4 facilities (n=303) found 16% of HCWs and 40% of residents were positive. Across facilities, the proportion of COVID-19 cases who were asymptomatic ranged from 4% to 41% among HCWs and 20% to 75% among residents. Despite temperature and symptom surveillance before each shift, out of the 4 HCWs identified as the index case for outbreaks, 3 reported working while symptomatic, all of whom wore masks but not necessarily eye protection, gloves, or gowns.\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\">Louie et al. (July 20, 2020). Lessons from Mass-Testing for COVID-19 in Long Term Care Facilities for the Elderly in San Francisco. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1020\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1020<\/span><\/a><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>Louie et al. describe the results of surveillance, outbreak response, and control measures to prevent COVID-19 in 4 long term care facilities (LCTF) in San Francisco early in the pandemic. Facility-wide testing of asymptomatic health care workers (HCWs) and residents in these 4 facilities (n=303) found 16% of HCWs and 40% of residents were positive&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/21\/lessons-from-mass-testing-for-covid-19-in-long-term-care-facilities-for-the-elderly-in-san-francisco\/\">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":[16],"class_list":["post-8397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397","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=8397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8397"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}