Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak in a San Francisco Homeless Shelter
111 Citations•2020•
Elizabeth Imbert, Patrick Kinley, Ashley Scarborough
The limited utility of case investigation, person-based contact tracing and symptom screening, and the benefits of mass testing in outbreak response in COVID-19 are described.
Abstract
We report the public health response to a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in a San Francisco shelter where 67% of residents and 17% of staff tested positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We describe the limited utility of case investigation, person-based contact tracing and symptom screening, and the benefits of mass testing in outbreak response.