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JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTION
Volume 53, Issue 3, Pages 447-453Publisher
ELSEVIER TAIWAN
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmii.2020.04.003
Keywords
Long-term care facility; Enhanced traffic control bundling; Compartmen talization COVID-19; Pandemic; Mitigation
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- Taiwan CDC [DOH 92-DCSA01]
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The COVID-19 outbreak has drawn heightened attention from public health scholars researching ways to limit its spread. Much of the research has been focused on minimizing transmission in hospitals and in the general community. However, a particularly vulnerable community that has received relatively little attention is elders residing in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). In this article we address this relative lack of attention, arguing that enhanced traffic control bundling (eTCB) can and should be adopted and implemented as a means of protecting LTCF residents and staff. Enhanced TCB has been widely applied in hospital settings and has proven effective at limiting droplet and fomite transmissions both within hospitals and between hospitals and the general community. By effectively adapting eTCB to LTCF conditions, particularly by incorporating compartmentalization within zones plus active surveillance, COVID-19 transmission into and throughout LTCFs can be minimized, thereby saving numerous lives among an especially vulnerable population. Copyright (C) 2020, Taiwan Society of Microbiology. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC.
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