A Novel Approach for a Novel Pathogen: Using a Home Assessment Team to Evaluate Patients for COVID-19
Chloe Bryson‐Cahn, Jeffrey S. Duchin, Vanessa A Makarewicz, Meagan Kay, Krista Rietberg, Nathanael Napolitano, Carole Kamangu, Timothy H. Dellit, John B. Lynch
Abstract
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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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Resource (disambiguation)Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)2019-20 coronavirus outbreakHealth carePathogenMedicineMedical emergencyComputer scienceVirologyImmunologyPolitical scienceDiseasePathologyInfectious disease (medical specialty)LawComputer networkOutbreakSARS-CoV-2 detection and testingSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 ResearchAntibiotic Use and Resistance