{"id":2042,"date":"2020-11-06T10:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T18:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:02:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T18:02:48","slug":"covid-19-seropositivity-and-asymptomatic-rates-in-healthcare-workers-are-associated-with-job-function-and-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/06\/covid-19-seropositivity-and-asymptomatic-rates-in-healthcare-workers-are-associated-with-job-function-and-masking\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Seropositivity and Asymptomatic Rates in Healthcare Workers Are Associated with Job Function and Masking."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A study of frontline healthcare workers in Michigan found that having direct contact with patients who were positive for SARS-CoV-2 increased the likelihood of seropositivity but masks were protective. Of those who reported direct contact with SARS-CoV-2-infected patients, seropositivity rates were 10% with an N95 mask, 13% with surgical mask, and 18% with no mask.\u00a0Among the 1,818 participants (9% of the total population) who were seropositive between April 13 and May 28, 2020, 44% reported that they were asymptomatic during the month prior to blood collection. Participants in roles such as phlebotomy, respiratory therapy, and nursing\/nursing support had a significantly higher likelihood of being seropositive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sims et al. (Nov 5, 2020). COVID-19 Seropositivity and Asymptomatic Rates in Healthcare Workers Are Associated with Job Function and Masking. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1684\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1684<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of frontline healthcare workers in Michigan found that having direct contact with patients who were positive for SARS-CoV-2 increased the likelihood of seropositivity but masks were protective. Of those who reported direct contact with SARS-CoV-2-infected patients, seropositivity rates were 10% with an N95 mask, 13% with surgical mask, and 18% with no mask.\u00a0Among&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/06\/covid-19-seropositivity-and-asymptomatic-rates-in-healthcare-workers-are-associated-with-job-function-and-masking\/\">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":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","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=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}