Department of Public Health HSE-South (Cork and Kerry), St. Finbarr's Hospital, Cork, Ireland.
Wellcome Trust-HRB Irish Clinical Academic Training (ICAT) Programme, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Euro Surveill. 2020 Jun;25(23). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.23.2000972.
We report the effectiveness of automated text messaging for active surveillance of asymptomatic close contacts of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the Cork/Kerry region of Ireland. In the first 7 weeks of the COVID-19 outbreak, 1,336 close contacts received 12,421 automated texts. Overall, 120 contacts (9.0%) reported symptoms which required referral for testing and 35 (2.6%) tested positive for COVID-19. Non-response was high (n = 2,121; 17.1%) and this required substantial clinical and administrative resources for follow-up.
我们报告了在爱尔兰科克/克里地区利用自动短信对无症状的新冠病毒（COVID-19）病例密切接触者进行主动监测的效果。在 COVID-19 爆发的头 7 周内，1336 名密切接触者共收到 12421 条自动短信。总体而言，有 120 名接触者（9.0%）报告出现症状，需要转介进行检测，35 名（2.6%）检测出 COVID-19 阳性。不回复率很高（n=2121；17.1%），这需要大量的临床和行政资源进行后续跟踪。
