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cord-321235-h3w8827o	Cabrera Alvargonzalez, Jorge Julio	Pooling for SARS-CoV-2 control in care institutions	2020-10-12		.txt	text/plain	2839	195	58	The aims of the present study, based in our local experience, were (a) to describe SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in institutionalized people in Galicia (Spain) during the Coronavirus pandemic and (b) to evaluate the expected performance of a pooling strategy using RT-PCR for the next rounds of screening of institutionalized people. The rationale in this study is to develop a new strategy based on initial individual identification of positive coronavirus cases in order to organize low prevalence clusters, followed by a serial pooling strategy testing of these clusters, in order to control areas free of virus circulation, allowing them to be fully operative. During the Coronavirus pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 prevalence was obtained by individually testing of 25, 386 people from 306 Galician Care Homes: 16,477 residents, 8599 workers and 310 not specified. A global SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence of 5% in Spain [12] and a global viral prevalence around 3% at Care Homes reported in the present study, suggest that the number of people at risk of acquiring the infection continue to be very high.	./cache/cord-321235-h3w8827o.txt	./txt/cord-321235-h3w8827o.txt