{"id":1786,"date":"2020-10-26T12:11:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T19:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2020-10-27T12:13:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T19:13:26","slug":"seropositive-prevalence-of-antibodies-against-sars-cov-2-in-wuhan-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/26\/seropositive-prevalence-of-antibodies-against-sars-cov-2-in-wuhan-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Seropositive Prevalence of Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional study of healthy adults in Wuhan, China (n=35,040) with no prior history of COVID-19 found that the seroprevalence was 3.9% among the study population in samples taken eight weeks following the peak infection period. Most individuals tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies only, indicating previous infection. Seropositive prevalence was higher in urban areas than rural or suburban areas (4.4% vs 2.9%), and higher in women than men (4.4% vs 3.3%). It was also significantly higher among elderly individuals (9.2%) compared with other age groups.<\/p>\n<p><i>Liu et al. (Oct 23, 2020). Seropositive Prevalence of Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan, China. JAMA Network Open. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.25717\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.25717<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional study of healthy adults in Wuhan, China (n=35,040) with no prior history of COVID-19 found that the seroprevalence was 3.9% among the study population in samples taken eight weeks following the peak infection period. Most individuals tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibodies only, indicating previous infection. Seropositive prevalence was higher in urban areas&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/26\/seropositive-prevalence-of-antibodies-against-sars-cov-2-in-wuhan-china\/\">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":[83],"topic":[24],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-seroprevalence","topic-geographic-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","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=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}