{"id":1565,"date":"2020-10-14T13:26:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T20:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2020-10-19T15:53:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:53:15","slug":"rapid-and-low-cost-sampling-for-detection-of-airborne-sars-cov-2-in-dehumidifier-condensate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/14\/rapid-and-low-cost-sampling-for-detection-of-airborne-sars-cov-2-in-dehumidifier-condensate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid and Low-Cost Sampling for Detection of Airborne SARS-CoV-2 in Dehumidifier Condensate"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] <\/i>A simple technique of sampling condensate from a commercial dehumidifier at 24-48 hour intervals identified SARS-CoV2 in a hospital setting. Four portable dehumidifiers obtained from Amazon were stationed at various locations in a Maryland hospital ward over 3 separate 1-week periods (June 29- July 5, July 22-August 10 and September 3-10). Among 34 condensate samples collected, 6 were tested as positive for SARS-CoV-2 antigens by ELISA, and none were positive for viral RNA by RT-LAMP or RT-PCR.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Moitra et al. (Oct 13, 2020). Rapid and Low-Cost Sampling for Detection of Airborne SARS-CoV-2 in Dehumidifier Condensate. Pre-print downloaded Oct 14 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.08.20208785\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.08.20208785<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed] A simple technique of sampling condensate from a commercial dehumidifier at 24-48 hour intervals identified SARS-CoV2 in a hospital setting. Four portable dehumidifiers obtained from Amazon were stationed at various locations in a Maryland hospital ward over 3 separate 1-week periods (June 29- July 5, July 22-August 10 and September 3-10). Among&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/14\/rapid-and-low-cost-sampling-for-detection-of-airborne-sars-cov-2-in-dehumidifier-condensate\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,93,75,76],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-candidate","tag-infection-control","tag-report","tag-summarize","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}