{"id":9436,"date":"2021-04-27T10:13:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9436"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:14:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T17:14:44","slug":"sars-cov-2-in-nursing-homes-after-3-months-of-serial-facilitywide-point-prevalence-testing-connecticut-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/27\/sars-cov-2-in-nursing-homes-after-3-months-of-serial-facilitywide-point-prevalence-testing-connecticut-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 in Nursing Homes after 3 Months of Serial, Facilitywide Point Prevalence Testing, Connecticut, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The implementation of point prevalence survey (PPS) testing for SARS-CoV-2 infections in 34 nursing homes in Connecticut was associated with a 41-80% reduction in the incidence rate in nursing homes. Data were obtained from public health surveillance records beginning 4 weeks prior to widespread implementation of PPS testing on May 2020 and up to 12 weeks after implementation, during which a combined total of 205 PPSs among staff and 232 PPSs testing among residents were conducted. Results were adjusted for decreases in community incidence during the study period.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ehrlich et al.\u00a0(Apr 20, 2021). SARS-CoV-2 in Nursing Homes after 3 Months of Serial, Facilitywide Point Prevalence Testing, Connecticut, USA. Emerging Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2705.204936\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2705.204936<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The implementation of point prevalence survey (PPS) testing for SARS-CoV-2 infections in 34 nursing homes in Connecticut was associated with a 41-80% reduction in the incidence rate in nursing homes. Data were obtained from public health surveillance records beginning 4 weeks prior to widespread implementation of PPS testing on May 2020 and up to 12&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/27\/sars-cov-2-in-nursing-homes-after-3-months-of-serial-facilitywide-point-prevalence-testing-connecticut-usa\/\">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":[136,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-9436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-healthcare-congregant","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436","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=9436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9437,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9436\/revisions\/9437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9436"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}