{"id":2210,"date":"2020-11-17T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2020-11-18T12:52:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:52:26","slug":"estimating-the-cumulative-incidence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-and-the-infection-fatality-ratio-in-light-of-waning-antibodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/17\/estimating-the-cumulative-incidence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-and-the-infection-fatality-ratio-in-light-of-waning-antibodies\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating the Cumulative Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Infection Fatality Ratio in Light of Waning Antibodies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] <\/i>The cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection may be underestimated by using cross-sectional data from serology tests without adjusting for waning antibodies. By estimating the average time from seroconversion to seroreversion and combining with population-level cross sectional data, Shioda et al. calculated the cumulative incidence to be 27% in New York City and 9% in Connecticut (through the end of September 2020), while prior estimates were lower (22% and 6%, respectively).<\/p>\n<p><i>Shioda et al. (Nov 16, 2020). Estimating the Cumulative Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Infection Fatality Ratio in Light of Waning Antibodies. Pre-print downloaded Nov 17 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.13.20231266\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.13.20231266<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] The cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection may be underestimated by using cross-sectional data from serology tests without adjusting for waning antibodies. By estimating the average time from seroconversion to seroreversion and combining with population-level cross sectional data, Shioda et al. calculated the cumulative incidence to be 27% in New York City&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/17\/estimating-the-cumulative-incidence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-and-the-infection-fatality-ratio-in-light-of-waning-antibodies\/\">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":[67],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-antibodies","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","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=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2211,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}