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A Novel Approach for a Novel Pathogen: Using a Home Assessment Team to Evaluate Patients for COVID-19

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CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 71, Issue 16, Pages 2211-2214

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa256

Keywords

novel coronavirus; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; home assessment

Funding

  1. Hospital Preparedness Program Ebola Preparedness and Response Activities (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance) [93.817]

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Thousands of people in the United States have required testing for SARS-CoV-2. Evaluation for a special pathogen is resource intensive. We report an innovative approach to home assessment that, in collaboration with public health, enables safe evaluation and specimen collection outside the healthcare setting, avoiding unnecessary exposures and resource utilization.

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