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cord-253457-gawn4s9g	Yau, Kevin	COVID-19 Outbreak in an Urban Hemodialysis Unit	2020-07-15		.txt	text/plain	2215	145	47	Patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection including asymptomatic individuals were treated with droplet and contact precautions until confirmation of negative SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing. Nasopharyngeal swabs were performed by physicians, nurse practitioners, and staff from the hospital's COVID-19 Assessment Centre under droplet and contact precautions in the hemodialysis unit with curtains drawn around the dialysis station at which the patient was being swabbed. At the time of testing, six (55%) patients and six (55%) staff positive for SARS-CoV-2 were asymptomatic. Patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection including asymptomatic individuals were dialyzed in a dedicated room separate from the main hemodialysis unit for the duration of their infection and maintained on droplet and contact precautions. Five hemodialysis staff were allowed to return to work following symptom resolution and documentation of two negative SARS-CoV-2 nasopharyngeal swabs performed 14 days from symptom onset. Infection control authorities concluded that SARS-CoV-2 transmission during an outbreak at the St. Michael's Hospital hemodialysis unit was likely to have originated from two index cases.	./cache/cord-253457-gawn4s9g.txt	./txt/cord-253457-gawn4s9g.txt