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cord-331130-vr8kczes	Chirico, Francesco	Hospital infection and COVID-19: Do not put all your eggs on the “swab” tests	2020-05-27		.txt	text/plain	777	51	52	To the Editor-In healthcare settings, including long-term care facilities, hospital administrators have a legal obligation to set up a risk assessment strategy to carry out effective prevention and control measures during the management of suspected and confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection. According to European Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (EU-CDC) guidelines, 1 each hospital should constitute a 'COVID-19 preparedness and response committee' and should prepare a specific plan, including a number of administrative and structural measures for patient and healthcare management. 2 To minimize the risk of spreading, mass testing with nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal (NP/OP) swab of all patients has been proposed, 2,3 associated with mass testing of both symptomatic and asymptomatic healthcare workers. Indeed, Xie et al 5 observed typical COVID-19 chest lesions via computed tomography (CT) scans in 5 patients with a negative or weakly positive swab test (RT-PCR test). One nosocomial cluster following with a familial cluster of COVID-19 cases: the potential transmission risk in patients with negative swab tests	./cache/cord-331130-vr8kczes.txt	./txt/cord-331130-vr8kczes.txt