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cord-320612-vam0bli3	Höring, Steffen	Management of a Hospital-Wide COVID-19 Outbreak Affecting Patients and Healthcare Workers	2020-10-26		.txt	text/plain	3403	190	48	Here, we report a large nosocomial outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 that occurred at a satellite hospital of the University Hospital Aachen, Germany, with 26 patients and 21 healthcare workers infected. Considering the numerous COVID-19 cases among patients and HCW, a hospital-wide screening was initiated on April 8 for all remaining SARS-CoV-2-negative patients and entire hospital staff. On the other hand, we analyzed the first cases among hospital staff, starting with the potential index nurse tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on the 6th of April. By the time the outbreak emerged, the hospital policy already comprised preemptive infection control measures in order to prevent intrahospital spread of SARS-CoV-2. The second route of transmission addressed by our measures was infected HCW, who potentially spread SARS-CoV-2 to patients as well as to their co-workers. In the post-outbreak period, we have continued to screen all patients on their day of admission and all geriatric inpatients once weekly for SARS-CoV-2 in order to detect new cases timely.	./cache/cord-320612-vam0bli3.txt	./txt/cord-320612-vam0bli3.txt