Mitigation of a COVID-19 Outbreak in a Nursing Home Through Serial Testing of Residents and Staff.

Daniel J Escobar,Maria Lanzi,Pouné Saberi,Ruby Love,Darren R. Linkin,John J. Kelly,Darshana Jhala,Valerianna Amorosa,Mary Hofmann,Jeffrey B Doyon

Mitigation of a COVID-19 Outbreak in a Nursing Home Through Serial Testing of Residents and Staff.

2020

Daniel J Escobar
Maria Lanzi
Pouné Saberi
Ruby Love
Darren R. Linkin
John J. Kelly
Darshana Jhala
Valerianna Amorosa
Mary Hofmann
Jeffrey B Doyon

Nursing homes and long-term care facilities represent highly vulnerable environments for respiratory disease outbreaks, such as COVID-19. We describe a COVID-19 outbreak in a nursing home that was rapidly contained by using a universal testing strategy of all residents and nursing home staff.

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Virology
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Medicine
Long-term care
Outbreak
outbreak response
Medical emergency
Coronavirus disease 2019
2019 20 coronavirus outbreak
nursing homes

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