COVID-19 Monitoring and Response Among U.S. Air Force Basic Military Trainees — Texas, March–April 2020
| Autor: | Joseph E Marcus, Rebecca S. Blackwell, Francis V. Tran, Theresa M. Casey, Mary T Pawlak, Heather C. Yun, Mathew J. Dolan, Dianne N. Frankel |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Health (social science) Isolation (health care) Epidemiology Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Population Pneumonia Viral Psychological intervention 01 natural sciences law.invention Patient Isolation 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine COVID-19 Testing Health Information Management law Pandemic Quarantine Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Full Report 0101 mathematics education Pandemics education.field_of_study business.industry Clinical Laboratory Techniques Incidence (epidemiology) Social distance 010102 general mathematics COVID-19 General Medicine Texas Military personnel Military Personnel Family medicine business Coronavirus Infections |
| Zdroj: | Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |
| ISSN: | 1545-861X 0149-2195 |
| Popis: | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in substantial morbidity and mortality since it was first described in December 2019 (1). Based on epidemiologic data showing spread in congregate settings (2-4), national, state, and local governments instituted significant restrictions on large gatherings to prevent transmission of disease in early March 2020. This and other nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have shown initial success in slowing the pandemic across the country (5). This report examines the first 7 weeks (March 1-April 18) of implementation of NPIs in Basic Military Training (BMT) at a U.S. Air Force base. In a population of 10,579 trainees, COVID-19 incidence was limited to five cases (47 per 100,000 persons), three of which were in persons who were contacts of the first patient. Transmission of symptomatic COVID-19 was successfully limited using strategies of quarantine, social distancing, early screening of trainees, rapid isolation of persons with suspected cases, and monitored reentry into training for trainees with positive test results after resolution of symptoms. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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