{"id":965,"date":"2020-09-17T10:29:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T17:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=965"},"modified":"2020-09-21T09:11:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:11:59","slug":"preventing-covid-19-outbreaks-in-long-term-care-facilities-through-preemptive-testing-of-residents-and-staff-members-fulton-county-georgia-march-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/preventing-covid-19-outbreaks-in-long-term-care-facilities-through-preemptive-testing-of-residents-and-staff-members-fulton-county-georgia-march-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing COVID-19 Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Facilities Through Preemptive Testing of Residents and Staff Members \u2014 Fulton County, Georgia, March\u2013May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There was a considerably higher proportion of positive SARS-CoV-2 test results among residents and staff in long-term care facilities when testing was conducted in response to an initial confirmed case of COVID-19 compared to preventive testing done before cases were detected.<\/li>\n<li>In Fulton County, Georgia, testing in response to an initial case in long-term care facilities (n=15) resulted in positive tests in 28% of residents and 7% of staff, increasing to 42% of residents and 12% of staff at 4-week follow-up testing. By comparison, when testing was conducted preventively (n=13 facilities), only 1% of residents and staff tested positive, increasing to 2% after 4 weeks. The authors conclude that proactive testing for residents and staff members might prevent large COVID-19 outbreaks through early identification and timely response. [EDITORIAL NOTE: A version of this article was previously summarized as a pre-print on July 2, 2020]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Telford et al. (Sept 18, 2020). Preventing COVID-19 Outbreaks in Long-Term Care Facilities Through Preemptive Testing of Residents and Staff Members \u2014 Fulton County, Georgia, March\u2013May 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6937a4\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6937a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a considerably higher proportion of positive SARS-CoV-2 test results among residents and staff in long-term care facilities when testing was conducted in response to an initial confirmed case of COVID-19 compared to preventive testing done before cases were detected. In Fulton County, Georgia, testing in response to an initial case in long-term care&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/17\/preventing-covid-19-outbreaks-in-long-term-care-facilities-through-preemptive-testing-of-residents-and-staff-members-fulton-county-georgia-march-may-2020\/\">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],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}