Medical Student Research Forum Posters

Coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious virus currently causing a pandemic. Evidence supports high rates of asymptomatic infections with COVID-19, leading to concerns that viral transmission may occur via these asymptomatic patients. Initially, the screening of asymptomatic patients was of low utility as only 2 of 1,342 ED patients tested positive. These findings were during a period of low COVID-19 prevalence in the community. Subsequently, COVID-19 infection rates increased in the community. During this increase in COVID-19, the rate of asymptomatic cases also increased.