Effectiveness of Frequent Point-of-Care Molecular COVID-19 Surveillance in a Rural Workplace: Nonrandomized Controlled Clinical Trial Among Miners

Akshay Sood   ¹ , MPH, MD ;   William “Cotton” Jarrell   ² , CMSP ;   Xin W Shore   ³ , MSc ;   Nestor Sosa   ³ , MD ;   Alisha Parada   ³ , MD ;   Nicholas Edwardson   ⁴ , PhD ;   Alexandra V Yingling   ³ , PhD ;   Teah Amirkabirian   ³ , BSc ;   Qiuying Cheng   ³ , PhD ;   Ivy Hurwitz   ³ , PhD ;   Linda S Cook   ⁵ , PhD ;   Shuguang Leng   ³ , PhD ;   Orrin B Myers   ³ , PhD ;   Douglas J Perkins   ⁶ , PhD

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States

² Miners Colfax Medical Center, Raton, NM, United States

³ University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States

⁴ School of Public Administration, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States

⁵ Department of Epidemiology, University of Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO, United States

⁶ Center for Global Health, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States