COVID‐19 and beyond: Lessons learned from emergency department HIV screening for population‐based screening in healthcare settings

Abstract

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A Tale of 3 Pandemics: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, Hepatitis C Virus, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus in an Urban Emergency Department in Baltimore, Maryland

“…Historically, EDs have served as a window for understanding emerging infectious disease epidemics in local communities, in large part through the conduct of clinical and laboratory-based observational studies, including those for HIV [ 14–16 ], HCV [ 17–19 ], and now SARS-CoV-2 [ 20–23 ]. EDs have also played a major role in broad infectious disease public health initiatives, implementing varied HCV and HIV testing and linkage-to-care programs [ 24 , 25 ].…”