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ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020

Biosafety at Home: How to Translate Biomedical Laboratory Safety Precautions for Everyday Use in the Context of COVID-19.

Miguel Reina Ortiz, Mario J Grijalva, Michael J Turell, William F Waters, Andres Carrazco Montalvo, Derrick Mathias, Vinita Sharma, Christian Fierro Renoy, Paul Suits, Stephen J Thomas and 1 more

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Article in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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11 authors.

Miguel Reina Ortiz1College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.
Mario J Grijalva2Department of Biomedical Sciences, Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.
Michael J Turell4VectorID LLC, Frederick, Maryland.
William F Waters5School of Public Health, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.
Andres Carrazco Montalvo6Medical Entomology and Tropical Medicine Laboratory LEMMT, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.
Derrick Mathias7Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, Vero Beach, Florida.
Vinita Sharma8College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Christian Fierro Renoy10Hospital Metropolitano de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.
Paul Suits11SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York.
Stephen J Thomas11SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York.
Renato Leon6Medical Entomology and Tropical Medicine Laboratory LEMMT, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Population adoption of social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic is at times deficient, increasing the risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Healthcare workers and those living in areas of intense transmission may benefit from implementing biosafety measures in their daily lives. A mixed-methods approach, combining components of single negotiation text and the Delphi method, was used to create a COVID-19 biosafety-at-home protocol. A consensus building coordinator liaised with 12 experts to develop the protocol over 11 iterations. Experts had more than 200 years of combined experience in epidemiology, virology, infectious disease prevention, and public health. A flyer, created from the final protocol, was professionally designed and initially distributed via social media and institutional websites/emails in Ecuador beginning on May 2, 2020. Since then, it has been distributed in other countries, reaching ∼7,000 people. Translating research laboratory biosafety measures for the home/street environment might be challenging. The biosafety-at-home flyer addresses this challenge in a user-friendly format.

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Health CommunicationHousingBetacoronavirusConsensusContainment of BiohazardsCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Delphi TechniqueEcuadorHealth EducationHumansPandemicsPneumonia, ViralSARS-CoV-2

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PMCPMC7410461

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