Case Report: Managing a COVID-19 Nursing Home Outbreak A Physicianâ€™s Perspective

Dr. Jim Shalom

doi:10.34257/GJMRKVOL21IS2PG1

Case Report: Managing a COVID-19 Nursing Home Outbreak A Physician’s Perspective

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I am the medical director and sole physician at a 35-bed nursing home in Western Galilee in Israel. At the end of December 2020, the nursing home experienced a COVID outbreak in which nineteen residents were infected. Four of them were symptomatic, and two died. Ten staff members, including our administrator, likewise caught the disease, and five of them were symptomatic. All recovered. The first part of this paper will examine why, despite all our precautions, the outbreak occurred when it did, and why it spread extensively within the home. The second part will describe how the nursing home functioned after the outbreak, until its residents recovered.

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Hannah Abrams,Lacey Loomer,Ashvin Gandhi,David Grabowski (2020). Characteristics of U.S. Nursing Homes with <scp>COVID</scp> ‐19 Cases.
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Dr. Jim Shalom. 2021. "Case Report: Managing a COVID-19 Nursing Home Outbreak A Physician’s Perspective". Global Journal of Medical Research - K: Interdisciplinary GJMR-K Volume 21 (GJMR Volume 21 Issue K2).

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/gjmr

Print ISSN 0975-5888

e-ISSN 2249-4618

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GJMR-K Classification NLMC Code: WB 105

Submission ReceivedApril 14, 2021
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Accepted May 3, 2021
Published May 15, 2021

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February 27, 2021

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