{"id":1784,"date":"2020-10-26T12:09:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T19:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2020-10-27T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T19:10:57","slug":"no-sars-cov-2-detected-in-air-samples-pollen-and-particulate-matter-in-leipzig-during-the-first-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/26\/no-sars-cov-2-detected-in-air-samples-pollen-and-particulate-matter-in-leipzig-during-the-first-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"No SARS-CoV-2 Detected in Air Samples (Pollen and Particulate Matter) in Leipzig during the First Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Results from a study in Leipzig, Germany during the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections did not find pollen to be a carrier for virus particles, nor that bioaerosol samples were infectious. While the authors note that aggregate findings from the study could suggest a correlation between <i>Corylus<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i> pollen species and COVID-19 cases, none of the identified pollen samples carried or transmitted SARS-CoV-2. They further note that a low number of cases in Leipzig may make it difficult to detect virus in the air, and that different cities with higher infection rates may observe different results.<\/p>\n<p><i>Dunker et al. (Oct 2020). No SARS-CoV-2 Detected in Air Samples (Pollen and Particulate Matter) in Leipzig during the First Spread. Science of The Total Environment. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2020.142881\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2020.142881<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results from a study in Leipzig, Germany during the first wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections did not find pollen to be a carrier for virus particles, nor that bioaerosol samples were infectious. While the authors note that aggregate findings from the study could suggest a correlation between Corylus\u00a0 pollen species and COVID-19 cases, none of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/26\/no-sars-cov-2-detected-in-air-samples-pollen-and-particulate-matter-in-leipzig-during-the-first-spread\/\">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":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-1784","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\/1784","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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}