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cord-255940-chb4iuis	Walton, David A.	Facility-Level Approaches for COVID-19 When Caseload Surpasses Surge Capacity	2020-06-26		.txt	text/plain	1801	99	49	We present two COVID-19 treatment center designs that leverage lessons learned from previous outbreaks of communicable infectious diseases and provide potential solutions when caseload exceeds existing capacity, with and without access to SARS-CoV-2 testing. These designs are intended for settings in which health facilities and testing resources for COVID-19 are surpassed during the pandemic, are adaptable to local conditions and constraints, and mitigate the likelihood of nosocomial transmission while offering an option to care for hospitalized patients. To respond to the immediate crisis facing health workers and patients, we propose a COVID-19 treatment center design ( Figure 1 ) that harnesses lessons learned from other outbreaks and adheres to infection prevention and control principles recommended by the WHO for the novel coronavirus. The design assumes that two thresholds have been reached: first, the health center no longer has space to individually isolate COVID-19 patients, and second, laboratory capacity is limited or surpassed, such that rapid, accurate testing for COVID-19 may not be available, as is the reality facing our colleagues in Haiti.	./cache/cord-255940-chb4iuis.txt	./txt/cord-255940-chb4iuis.txt