{"id":1763,"date":"2020-10-23T09:53:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T16:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2020-10-26T09:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:53:47","slug":"utilization-and-results-of-repeat-sars-cov-2-rt-pcr-testing-in-a-presumptive-low-prevalence-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/23\/utilization-and-results-of-repeat-sars-cov-2-rt-pcr-testing-in-a-presumptive-low-prevalence-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Utilization and Results of Repeat SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Testing in a Presumptive Low Prevalence Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In a population of patients with a low prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, repeat testing of negative patients who had persistent symptoms still yielded a negative result in 96% of the cases. Out of more than 5,000 patients who were tested, 4% of patients were tested more than once, and 96% of those patients were tested twice. The largest proportion of these patients (71%) were those who had an initial negative test followed by a repeat test done for persistent symptoms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kovacs et al. (Sept 2020). Utilization and Results of Repeat SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Testing in a Presumptive Low Prevalence Population. Wisconsin Medical Journal. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/33091285\">http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/33091285<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a population of patients with a low prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, repeat testing of negative patients who had persistent symptoms still yielded a negative result in 96% of the cases. Out of more than 5,000 patients who were tested, 4% of patients were tested more than once, and 96% of those patients were tested&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/23\/utilization-and-results-of-repeat-sars-cov-2-rt-pcr-testing-in-a-presumptive-low-prevalence-population\/\">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":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763","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=1763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1764,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763\/revisions\/1764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}