This is an Accepted Manuscript for Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology as part of the Cambridge Coronavirus Collection. DOI: 10.1017/ice.2021.384 Concise Communication Impact of Weekly Asymptomatic Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Virus in Inpatients at an Academic Hospital Leigh Smith MD 1 , Sara Pau MHS 2 , Susan Fallon MHS 2 , Sara E. Cosgrove MD, MS 1,2 , Melanie S. Curless MSPH 2 , Valeria Fabre MD 1,2 , Sara M. Karaba MD, PhD, MHS 1 , Lisa L Maragakis MD, MPH 1,2 , Aaron M Milstone MD, MHS 2,3 , Anna C. Sick-Samuels MD, MPH 2,3 , Polly Trexler MS 2 , Clare Rock MD, MS 1,2 for the CDC Prevention Epicenter Program 1 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 2 Department of Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 3 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland Corresponding Author: Leigh Smith, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287, Tel (443) 287-4392, lsmit213@jh.edu Abbreviated Title: Weekly Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Testing Funding Source: This work was funded by the CDC Prevention Epicenter Program through a COVID-19 supplement under grant 6 U01CK000554-02-02. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official view of the funding agency. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 03 Sep 2021 at 23:42:27, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use.