{"id":8729,"date":"2020-08-04T11:10:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T18:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8729"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:11:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:11:24","slug":"coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-outbreak-in-a-san-francisco-homeless-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/04\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-outbreak-in-a-san-francisco-homeless-shelter\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak in a San Francisco Homeless Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"48\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Imbert et al. report on an outbreak of COVID-19 in a San Francisco homeless shelter<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, during which 255 residents and 64 staff were present.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">An initial strategy o<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">f<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0tracing bedmates of the first\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0cases<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and temperature checks and symptom screening of residents identified\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">7<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">additional cases.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Subsequently,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0mass testing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0150 of 255 residents\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">identified that 67%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">positive,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of which<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">48<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0symptomatic at the time of testing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Of the 60 staff tested, 17% were positive. After the shelter closed, 12% of cases visited the ER, 8% were hospitalized, and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">died.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Imbert et al. (Aug 2020). Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak in a San Francisco Homeless Shelter. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1071\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1071<\/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;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbert et al. report on an outbreak of COVID-19 in a San Francisco homeless shelter, during which 255 residents and 64 staff were present.\u00a0An initial strategy of\u00a0tracing bedmates of the first\u00a02\u00a0cases\u00a0and temperature checks and symptom screening of residents identified\u00a07\u00a0additional cases.\u00a0Subsequently,\u00a0mass testing\u00a0of\u00a0150 of 255 residents\u00a0identified that 67%\u00a0were\u00a0positive,\u00a0of which\u00a048%\u00a0were\u00a0symptomatic at the time of testing.\u00a0Of the 60 staff&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/04\/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-outbreak-in-a-san-francisco-homeless-shelter\/\">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-8729","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\/8729","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=8729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8730,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8729\/revisions\/8730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8729"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}