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cord-280206-49qjyhrd	Szczerbińska, Katarzyna	Could we have done better with COVID-19 in nursing homes?	2020-07-16		.txt	text/plain	3212	153	50	The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed recommendations to keep COVID-19 from entering LTC facilities: everyday active screening residents for early detection, preventing spread of infection in the facility, and assuring optimized personal protective equipment (PPE) supply. Therefore, more effective procedures are needed to protect the residents from being exposed to the infection being brought into the institution by others: for example, regular testing of staff in advance, and a labour law assuring compensation when the worker is ill to avoid a person with symptoms coming to work. The Special Interest Group in Long-Term Care of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (SIG-LTC of EUGMS) advocates for implementing a minimum standard of care in the nursing homes, which includes an obligatory training in LTC for physicians, which might improve the quality of care for residents and their protection from infections like SARS-CoV-2 [11] . Asymptomatic and presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections in residents of a long-term care skilled nursing facility	./cache/cord-280206-49qjyhrd.txt	./txt/cord-280206-49qjyhrd.txt