Volume 27, Number 5—May 2021
Synopsis
SARS-CoV-2 in Nursing Homes after 3 Months of Serial, Facilitywide Point Prevalence Testing, Connecticut, USA
Hanna Y. Ehrlich, Adora Harizaj, Lauren Campbell, McKenzie Colt, Karen Yuan, Therese Rabatsky-Ehr, Daniel M. Weinberger, Vivian Leung, Linda M. Niccolai, and Sunil Parikh
Table 1
Summary of point prevalence survey results of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in 34 nursing homes, Connecticut, USA*
| Category | Residents |
Staff |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. follow-up PPS | Positive test results from PPSs† | No. symptomatic at PPS testing | No. cases detected between PPSs† | No. symptomatic at time of non-PPS testing | No. PPS | Positive test results from staff PPSs | ||
| Total | 198 | 44 | 11 | 93 | 70 | 205 | 87 | |
| Average (SD) | 6.0 (2.3) | 1.3 (1.5) | 0.6 (0.9) | 2.7 (7.6) | 4.1 (9.1) | 6.2 (2.0) | 2.6 (4.9) | |
*Results of the first PPS in residents in (6); results displayed here are those of subsequent surveys only. In brief, 601 cases were detected in the first PPS (average 16.8, SD 13.5). One additional facility, coronavirus disease naive at the time of the initial PPS and therefore not included in the original study, detected 0 cases in its first PPS. PPS, point prevalence survey. †Excludes residents transferred into facilities with known coronavirus infection.
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