{"id":8399,"date":"2020-07-21T16:09:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T23:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8399"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:10:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T23:10:09","slug":"mitigation-of-a-covid-19-outbreak-in-a-nursing-home-through-serial-testing-of-residents-and-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/21\/mitigation-of-a-covid-19-outbreak-in-a-nursing-home-through-serial-testing-of-residents-and-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitigation of a COVID-19 Outbreak in a Nursing Home Through Serial Testing of Residents and Staff"},"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\">Escobar et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">report on an outbreak in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a Pennsylvania\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nursing home\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with 84 residents (83 male, mean age 74)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The index resident tested positive after exposure to a positive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">mployee<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who had not\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">yet developed symptoms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nterventions<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0implemented<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0includ<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a dedicated isolation unit,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">restrictions on resident travel, universal masking of residents, addition of eye shields to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">PPE mandated for staff<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, and serial testing of residents every 3-5 days.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Twenty-seven\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">residents<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0tested positive<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(26 from the index resident\u2019s floor),\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">representing an attack rate of 37<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%, and 13\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">residents\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">developed symptoms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\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\">Escobar et al. (July 20, 2020). Mitigation of a COVID-19 Outbreak in a Nursing Home Through Serial Testing of Residents and Staff. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1021\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1021<\/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>Escobar et al.\u00a0report on an outbreak in\u00a0a Pennsylvania\u00a0nursing home\u00a0with 84 residents (83 male, mean age 74).\u00a0The index resident tested positive after exposure to a positive\u00a0employee\u00a0who had not\u00a0yet developed symptoms.\u00a0\u00a0Interventions\u00a0implemented\u00a0included\u00a0a dedicated isolation unit,\u00a0restrictions on resident travel, universal masking of residents, addition of eye shields to\u00a0PPE mandated for staff, and serial testing of residents every 3-5 days.\u00a0Twenty-seven\u00a0residents\u00a0tested&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/21\/mitigation-of-a-covid-19-outbreak-in-a-nursing-home-through-serial-testing-of-residents-and-staff\/\">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-8399","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\/8399","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=8399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8400,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8399\/revisions\/8400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8399"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}