COVID-19: the case for health-care worker screening to prevent hospital transmission

Lancet. 2020 May 2;395(10234):1418-1420. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30917-X. Epub 2020 Apr 16.

¹ Cancer Genome Evolution Research Group, University College London Cancer Institute, University College London, London, UK.
² Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK.
³ Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK; Cancer Research UK Lung Cancer Centre of Excellence, University College London Cancer Institute, London, UK; University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK. Electronic address: charles.swanton@crick.ac.uk.

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Publication types

Asymptomatic Diseases
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
COVID-19 Testing
Clinical Laboratory Techniques*
Coronavirus Infections* / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections* / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections* / prevention & control
Coronavirus Infections* / transmission
Cross Infection / prevention & control
Health Personnel*
Health Workforce
Humans
Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient / prevention & control*
Mass Screening*
Pandemics* / prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral* / diagnosis
Pneumonia, Viral* / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral* / prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral* / transmission
Quarantine
RNA, Viral / analysis
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
SARS-CoV-2
United Kingdom