{"id":9426,"date":"2021-04-26T10:03:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9426"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T17:04:27","slug":"assessment-of-contact-tracing-for-covid-19-among-people-experiencing-homelessness-salt-lake-county-health-department-march-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/26\/assessment-of-contact-tracing-for-covid-19-among-people-experiencing-homelessness-salt-lake-county-health-department-march-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment of Contact Tracing for COVID-19 among People Experiencing Homelessness, Salt Lake County Health Department, March-May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A study comparing person-based contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2 among people experiencing homelessness (PEH) compared to the general population in Utah between March and May 2020 found that PEH were more likely to be lost to follow-up at the end of isolation (14%), provided fewer contacts per case (0.31), and their contacts were more often unreachable (13% vs. 7%). The authors suggest that contract tracing among PEH should employ location-based approaches, which focus on asking a person with COVID-19 where they have been, along with a person-based approach when possible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fields et al.\u00a0(Apr 2021). Assessment of Contact Tracing for COVID-19 among People Experiencing Homelessness, Salt Lake County Health Department, March-May 2020. Annals of Epidemiology. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.annepidem.2021.04.002\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.annepidem.2021.04.002<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study comparing person-based contact tracing for SARS-CoV-2 among people experiencing homelessness (PEH) compared to the general population in Utah between March and May 2020 found that PEH were more likely to be lost to follow-up at the end of isolation (14%), provided fewer contacts per case (0.31), and their contacts were more often unreachable&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/26\/assessment-of-contact-tracing-for-covid-19-among-people-experiencing-homelessness-salt-lake-county-health-department-march-may-2020\/\">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":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426","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=9426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9427,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9426\/revisions\/9427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9426"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}