{"id":4338,"date":"2024-01-17T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2024-02-01T18:50:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T23:50:30","slug":"study-infection-control-measures-stemmed-covid-spread-in-hospitals-from-2020-to-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/study-infection-control-measures-stemmed-covid-spread-in-hospitals-from-2020-to-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Infection-control measures stemmed COVID spread in hospitals from 2020 to 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Implementation of ventilation standards of at least five clean-air changes per hour, COVID-19 testing, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and universal wearing of respirators prevented most SARS-CoV-2 transmissions in a California healthcare system from 2020 to 2022, suggests a study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, University of California (UC) researchers used electronic health records and movement data of patients and staff to conduct viral genomic and social network analyses to estimate COVID-19 spread in the UC\u2013San Diego Health system. The team analyzed 12,933 viral genomes from 35,666 infected patients and healthcare workers (HCWs) (out of 1,303,622 tests [2.7%]) from November 2020 to January 2022.<\/p>\n<h2>Testing, PPE, respiratory protection<\/h2>\n<p>HCWs were required to wear N95 respirators, eye protection, gowns, and gloves while directly caring for COVID-19 patients and were asked to don KN95 or N95 respirators in all hospital areas, including non\u2013patient-care areas.<\/p>\n<p>All unvaccinated HCWs underwent COVID-19 testing twice weekly, and vaccinated HCWs were tested weekly during periods of increased community transmission. Each HCW completed a daily COVID-19 symptom survey and were referred for testing if they reported a positive symptom or exposure.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i class=\"fa fa-camera\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>&nbsp;Image description: Lieutenant (junior grade) Kayla Marthy, from Long Island, New York (left), and Lieutenant (junior grade) Brianna Garcia, from St. Petersburg, Florida, treat a patient in the intensive care unit aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), on April&nbsp;13, 2020. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryan M. Breeden. Image is licensed under a <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\">Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 DEED | Attribution 2.0 Generic license<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width: 0;height: 31px;width: 88px\" src=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/by.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Implementation of ventilation standards of at least five clean-air changes per hour, COVID-19 testing, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and universal wearing of respirators prevented most SARS-CoV-2 transmissions in a California healthcare system from 2020 to 2022, suggests a study published yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, University of California (UC) researchers used electronic health records and movement data of patients and staff to conduct viral genomic and social network analyses to estimate COVID-19 spread in the UC\u2013San Diego Health system. The team analyzed 12,933 viral genomes from 35,666 infected patients and healthcare workers (HCWs) (out of 1,303,622 tests [2.7%]) from November 2020 to January 2022.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/study-infection-control-measures-stemmed-covid-spread-in-hospitals-from-2020-to-2022\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Study: Infection-control measures stemmed COVID spread in hospitals from 2020 to 2022<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[162,18,23,245,8,269,14,51,143,850,43],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-california","tag-covid-19","tag-hospitals","tag-n95-respirators","tag-research","tag-san-diego","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-universal-masking","tag-university-of-california","tag-ventilation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4343,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions\/4343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}