Gepubliceerd in:
30-09-2020 | Letter to the Editor
A Call to Action to Implement Effective COVID-19 Prevention and Screening of Individuals with Severe Intellectual Developmental and Autism Spectrum Disorders
Auteurs:
A. Baghdadli, M. C. Picot, S. Miot, K. Munir
Gepubliceerd in:
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
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Uitgave 7/2021
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Excerpt
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an unprecedented pandemic with major life-threatening complications among people with serious underlying conditions, especially older adults. Today, in France, COVID-19 screening tests are performed on symptomatic individuals, inpatients, healthcare and emergency workers, but many individuals are asymptomatic and carry the virus. Screening is currently established in hospitals or clinical laboratories by means of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests that utilize deep nasopharyngeal swabs, with possibility of false negatives due to insufficient amount of viral material collection or laboratory error. Rapid serological diagnosis could be deployed soon to test larger set of subjects. The challenge is to define optimal screening strategies to identify both asymptomatic subjects and subgroups at risk of severe complications. …