COVID-19 is (still) dominating news globally, and clinical chemistry labs have been thrust into the spotlight as the world's media takes a previously unprecedented interest in bioanalytical science. Here, we speak with Peter Kissinger and Rolf Halden to gain expert insight into two very distinct...
Interim Guidance for Managing Healthcare Personnel with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 by the CDC Guidance for Hospitals on Containing Spread of COVID-19 CDC Evaluating and Testing Persons Under Investigation (PUI) for COVID-19 Clinical Guidelines Show All Medication Questions &...
Some hypothesized sociodemographic factors for increased exposure and severity of COVID-19 include living in a long-term care facility or being institutionalized, age (older), gender (mixed findings), having comorbidities (including high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, immunocompromised status, ...
The border community of San Ysidro is host to one of the busiest Ports of Entry between the US and Mexico where individuals lack access to healthcare resources and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, experienced higher possibilities of exposure [4, 5, 17, 18]. In response to these early ...
Depending on your symptoms and exposure, you may want to take a third rapid test another 48 hours after that, the FDA says. "If you have high-risk features, such as (a known COVID-19) exposure or symptoms, and it's negative," Cardona says, "either repeat testing the next day or...
COVIDStrategyCalculator allows full flexibility with regards to parameter choices of the underlying model, that, for example, determine the time-course of infection (e.g. the average “incubation time” or the “time of infectiousness”), the proportion of asymptomatic cases, the test sensitivity...
Black and Latinx/Hispanic people were more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than White people, but because of legacies of discrimination and maltr
technologies and concepts that govern testing in public health. This Review describes the changing role of testing during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the use of genomic surveillance to track SARS-CoV-2 transmission around the world, the use of contact tracing to contain disease outbreaks and...
To assess the effectiveness of this policy, VDH analyzed testing data for contacts of persons with a COVID-19 diagnosis. During May 8-November 16, VDH identified 8,798 exposed contacts of COVID-19 patients; 3,983 (45%) had sought testing within 14 days of their exposure, with day 0 ...
We conducted an ethically approved service evaluation (granted by Public Health England Research Ethics and Governance Group: Reference NR0235), involving an online cross-sectional survey of adult contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases who were invited to participate in seven days, post exposure daily...