{"id":1272,"date":"2020-10-01T09:16:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T16:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2020-10-02T09:17:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:17:26","slug":"sars-cov-2-seroprevalence-among-a-southern-u-s-population-indicates-limited-asymptomatic-spread-under-physical-distancing-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/01\/sars-cov-2-seroprevalence-among-a-southern-u-s-population-indicates-limited-asymptomatic-spread-under-physical-distancing-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence among a Southern U.S. Population Indicates Limited Asymptomatic Spread under Physical Distancing Measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG among people accessing health care for reasons other than COVID-19 symptoms in a low-density, suburban and rural population in North Carolina was 0.8% (24 of 2973) of outpatients and 0.7% (10 of 1449) of inpatients. Participants were sampled between March and June 2020, when state restrictions and physical distancing mandates were in place. Serological testing was performed with the Abbott SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay. The authors state that the low prevalence suggests that shelter-in-place mandates and physical distancing practices may have limited asymptomatic spread.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Barzin et al. (Sept 29, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence among a Southern U.S. Population Indicates Limited Asymptomatic Spread under Physical Distancing Measures. MBio. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/mBio.02426-20\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/mBio.02426-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG among people accessing health care for reasons other than COVID-19 symptoms in a low-density, suburban and rural population in North Carolina was 0.8% (24 of 2973) of outpatients and 0.7% (10 of 1449) of inpatients. Participants were sampled between March and June 2020, when state restrictions and physical distancing mandates&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/01\/sars-cov-2-seroprevalence-among-a-southern-u-s-population-indicates-limited-asymptomatic-spread-under-physical-distancing-measures\/\">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":[40],"topic":[24],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-geographic-spread","topic-geographic-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","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=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}