{"id":1095,"date":"2020-09-23T11:25:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2020-09-24T11:26:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T18:26:12","slug":"seroprevalence-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-infection-among-va-healthcare-system-employees-suggests-higher-risk-of-infection-when-exposed-to-sars-cov-2-outside-of-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/23\/seroprevalence-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-infection-among-va-healthcare-system-employees-suggests-higher-risk-of-infection-when-exposed-to-sars-cov-2-outside-of-th\/","title":{"rendered":"Seroprevalence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection Among VA Healthcare System Employees Suggests Higher Risk of Infection When Exposed to SARS-CoV-2 Outside of the Work Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Among Veterans Affairs Healthcare System employees (n=2,900), those who reported direct contact with someone with COVID-19 outside of work were more likely to have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Facility-wide testing (June 8 to July 8, 2020) identified 5% of employees (n=1,476) of a Veterans Affairs Healthcare System tested positive for SARS-COV-2 IgG antibodies, of whom 29% reported no history of symptoms for SARS-CoV-2 infection. Those who reported exposure to someone with known COVID-19 outside of work had a significantly higher seroprevalence compared to those who did not (15% vs. 4%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dimcheff et al. (Sept 23, 2020). Seroprevalence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection Among VA Healthcare System Employees Suggests Higher Risk of Infection When Exposed to SARS-CoV-2 Outside of the Work Environment. Infection Control &amp; Hospital Epidemiology. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.1220\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.1220<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among Veterans Affairs Healthcare System employees (n=2,900), those who reported direct contact with someone with COVID-19 outside of work were more likely to have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Facility-wide testing (June 8 to July 8, 2020) identified 5% of employees (n=1,476) of a Veterans Affairs Healthcare System tested positive for SARS-COV-2 IgG antibodies, of whom 29% reported&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/23\/seroprevalence-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-infection-among-va-healthcare-system-employees-suggests-higher-risk-of-infection-when-exposed-to-sars-cov-2-outside-of-th\/\">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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","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=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}