Screening Clients for COVID-19 at Homeless Shelters or Encampments | NLM

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Screening Clients for COVID-19 at Homeless Shelters or Encampments

05/28/2020 12:00 AM EDT

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Infectious Diseases (CDC OID). Published: 5/28/2020. This web page, updated on May 28, 2020, provides a simple screening tool that can be used to identify people with symptoms that indicate they might have a respiratory infection. Although not every person who has respiratory infection symptoms will have coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), using this tool during community spread of COVID-19 may help separate those who are more likely to have COVID-19 from the general population at entry to a homeless shelter or other homeless service program. (Text)