Testing of patients for COVID, isolation of sick staff cut in-hospital viral spread, UK modeling study suggests

COVID patient testing, isolation of sick staff cut in-hospital viral spread, modeling study suggests Interventions such as testing patients for COVID-19 on admission, isolation of ill healthcare workers (HCWs), and universal HCW masking from March 2020 to July 2022 significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 transmission among patients and staff in UK hospitals, suggests a simulation study led by UK Health Security Agency researchers in London. CIDRAP

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Results of the simulation suggest that, without COVID-19 testing at hospital admission, other infection-prevention protocols, and limits on occupancy and visitors, twice as many patients could have been infected in the first 2 years of the pandemic.

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