Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-eight Long-term Care Facilities in Fulton County, Georgia

Carson Telford; Udodirim Onwubiko; David Holland; Kim Turner; Juliana Prieto; Sasha Smith; Jane Yoon; Wecheeta Brown; Allison Chamberlain; Neel Gandhi; Shamimul Khan; Steve Williams; Fazle Khan; Sarita Shah

doi:10.1101/2020.07.01.20144162

Mass Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection among Residents and Staff in Twenty-eight Long-term Care Facilities in Fulton County, Georgia

medRxiv [Preprint]. 2020 Jul 2:2020.07.01.20144162. doi: 10.1101/2020.07.01.20144162.

Authors

Carson Telford¹, Udodirim Onwubiko¹, David Holland^{1

2}, Kim Turner¹, Juliana Prieto¹, Sasha Smith¹, Jane Yoon², Wecheeta Brown¹, Allison Chamberlain^{1

3}, Neel Gandhi^{2

3}, Shamimul Khan¹, Steve Williams⁴, Fazle Khan¹, Sarita Shah^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Office of Epidemiology, Fulton County Board of Health, Atlanta, GA.
² Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
³ Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
⁴ Fulton County Government, Atlanta, GA.

Abstract

Mass screening for SARS-CoV-2 infection in long-term care facilities revealed significantly higher prevalence of infection in facilities that screened in response to a known infection compared to those that screened as a prevention measure. "Response" facilities had a SARS-CoV-2 prevalence of 28.9% while "preventive" facilities' prevalence was 1.6% (p <0.001).

Keywords: COVID-19; long term care facility; screening.

Publication types

Preprint

Grants and funding

K24 AI114444/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States