{"id":919,"date":"2020-09-15T18:51:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T01:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=919"},"modified":"2020-09-15T18:51:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T01:51:42","slug":"characteristics-of-covid-19-in-homeless-shelters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/15\/characteristics-of-covid-19-in-homeless-shelters\/","title":{"rendered":"Characteristics of COVID-19 in Homeless Shelters"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Contact tracing events (&#8220;surge testing&#8221;) identified a much larger proportion of the positive SARS-CoV-2 cases among residents and staff in homeless shelters across King County (Washington State) compared to routine surveillance. Among 29 SARS-CoV-2 positive cases identified from 1,434 encounters of shelter residents and staff in homeless shelters, 72% of cases were detected during &#8220;surge testing&#8221;. Individuals who were 60 years or older more were more likely to test positive (45% vs 16%) and 86% of positive cases slept in a communal space.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rogers et al. (Sept 15, 2020). Characteristics of COVID-19 in Homeless Shelters. Annals of Internal Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7326\/M20-3799\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7326\/M20-3799<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact tracing events (&#8220;surge testing&#8221;) identified a much larger proportion of the positive SARS-CoV-2 cases among residents and staff in homeless shelters across King County (Washington State) compared to routine surveillance. Among 29 SARS-CoV-2 positive cases identified from 1,434 encounters of shelter residents and staff in homeless shelters, 72% of cases were detected during &#8220;surge&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/15\/characteristics-of-covid-19-in-homeless-shelters\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,68],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","tag-washington","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}