{"id":1027,"date":"2020-09-21T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T16:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2020-09-22T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T17:00:24","slug":"viable-sars-cov-2-in-the-air-of-a-hospital-room-with-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/21\/viable-sars-cov-2-in-the-air-of-a-hospital-room-with-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the Air of a Hospital Room with COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Lednicky et al. reported the detection of viable SARS-CoV-2 in air samples collected 2 to 4.8\u2009m away from 2 hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The genome sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 strain isolated from air samplers was identical to that isolated from the newly admitted patient. The authors conclude that aerosols generated by patients with respiratory manifestations of COVID-19 may serve as a source of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. [EDITORIAL NOTE: This manuscript was previously summarized as a pre-print on August 12, 2020].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lednicky et al. (Sept 15, 2020). Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the Air of a Hospital Room with COVID-19 Patients. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2020.09.025\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ijid.2020.09.025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lednicky et al. reported the detection of viable SARS-CoV-2 in air samples collected 2 to 4.8\u2009m away from 2 hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The genome sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 strain isolated from air samplers was identical to that isolated from the newly admitted patient. The authors conclude that aerosols generated by patients with respiratory manifestations&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/21\/viable-sars-cov-2-in-the-air-of-a-hospital-room-with-covid-19-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}