Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 among community members presenting for testing in Peoria, Illinois from 21 April to 15 May 2020

Autor: Tulika Chatterjee, Manasa Kandula, Mohammad O. Almoujahed, Minchul Kim, Kathryn Endress, Gregg Stoner, Monica Hendrickson, Joseph Y. Kim
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 36-38 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2000-9666
20009666
DOI: 10.1080/20009666.2020.1821470
Popis: Expanding easily accessible community SARS-CoV-2 screening is essential in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In this report, we describe the findings from the initial 25 days of a SARS-CoV-2 drive-up and walk-up testing initiative was organized in Peoria, Illinois. Eighty-seven out of 4,073 individuals (2.1%) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, and 46% of these were asymptomatic at the time of testing. There were ten frontline workers without symptoms consistent with COVID-19 who tested positive, including six that did not report any known exposure to SARS-CoV-2. These results stress the importance and effectiveness of widely available community SARS-CoV-2 testing and suggest a possible benefit to screening of asymptomatic individuals at higher risk for infection.
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