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Stopping routine hospital admission Covid testing
was associated with significant increases in hospital-onset SARS-CoV-2 infectionshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2805585

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Edge Jun 5, 2023

@erictopol This just seems so... obvious.

No one should go to a hospital and acquire something that might kill them, or affect their health for the rest of their lives.

Especially when we actually do have tools to help with this.

Was at a surgical center last month, we were the only masked people, including staff. Had to sign something saying we realized there was a covid risk... They wouldn't change their procedures, but they CTA with a release. Still angry about it.

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Eva Chanda Jun 5, 2023

@czarbucks @erictopol
Obvious, yet it's so important to do the reseach to prove it! #CovidIsNotOver

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Edge Jun 5, 2023

@echanda @erictopol Not implying it’s not important. Simply common sense, and for the love of the gods, let’s get masks and testing back.

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GreySkies Jun 6, 2023

@czarbucks @erictopol
But in the minds of most people (hospital staff and decision makers included) we do *not* possess the tools to prevent infection! In their minds infection is inevitable! These tools you speak of are...so unacceptable, so unfathomably hard to implement on a routine basis, that they...simply do not enter the equation. This is the reality we must face.

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LAHosken 🇺🇸👀Jun 5, 2023

@erictopol that link: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2805585 (original didn't auto-link)

Discontinuation of Universal Admission Testing for SARS-CoV-2 and Hospital-Onset SARS-CoV-2 Infections in England and Scotland

This quality improvement study examines the association between the discontinuation of universal admission testing for SARS-CoV-2 infections and hospital-onset SARS-CoV-2 infections in England and Scotland.

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