Tuesday, 30 June 2020

PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (295): institutional serial testing post exposure WHO, global

COVID-19 -- United States
Summary
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What is already known about this topic?
Correctional and detention facilities face unique challenges in detecting and mitigating transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
What is added by this report?
Testing among quarantined contacts of patients with COVID-19 in a correctional and detention facility identified a high proportion of asymptomatic and presymptomatic cases that were not identified through symptom screening alone. Approximately one fourth of cases were found

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7524593&promed&0

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