key: cord-1021019-9b5gfg87
authors: Buckley, Ayisha; Bianco, Angela; Stone, Joanne
title: Universal testing of patients and their support persons for COVID-19 when presenting for admission to Labor and Delivery within the Mount Sinai Health System
date: 2020-05-22
journal: Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajogmf.2020.100147
sha: c395fb9295efe4251d60696afa3f9274d1b0295b
doc_id: 1021019
cord_uid: 9b5gfg87

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-8 CoV-2) virus has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) (1) . It spread at an 9 accelerated rate in densely populated regions such as NYC which is considered an epicenter. 

We explored concordance/discordance rates between patients and support persons. Among 26 SARS-CoV 2 infected patients, 23/28 (82.1%) support persons were infected. However only 16/171 27 (9.4%) support persons were infected when patients tested negative. Importantly COVID negative 28 patients had COVID positive support persons 6.2% of the time. (Table 1) 

New York State Department of Health