Residents of long-term care facilities are at risk for coronavirus disease. We report a surveillance exercise at such a facility in Pennsylvania, USA. After introduction of a testing strategy and other measures, this facility had a 17-fold lower coronavirus disease case rate than neighboring facilities.
Keywords: COVID-19; Pennsylvania; SARS-CoV-2; United States; coronavirus disease; infection control; long-term care facilities; respiratory infections; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; testing; viruses; zoonoses.