{"id":2330,"date":"2020-11-23T12:21:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2020-11-24T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:05:33","slug":"pooling-is-an-insufficient-strategy-to-avoid-health-care-staff-to-patient-transmission-of-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/23\/pooling-is-an-insufficient-strategy-to-avoid-health-care-staff-to-patient-transmission-of-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pooling Is an Insufficient Strategy to Avoid Health Care Staff to Patient Transmission of SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pooling strategies for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR screening showed low sensitivity compared to single sample testing in medical staff in a hospital in Germany. Among 280 samples tested (8 positive, 3%), the sensitivity was 29% in pooling with 10 samples (2\/7 pools) and 76% in pooling with 5 samples (13\/17 pools). In contrast to other studies, the majority of samples were from throat washes (247\/280, 88%), and a minority were 32\/280 (11%) were from swabs, owing to a lack of available swabs. Samples were prospectively tested both individually and in pools to make the comparisons.<\/p>\n<p><i>L\u00fcsebrink et al. (Nov 20, 2020). Pooling Is an Insufficient Strategy to Avoid Health Care Staff to Patient Transmission of SARS-CoV-2. Infection Control &amp; Hospital Epidemiology. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.1340\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.1340<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pooling strategies for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR screening showed low sensitivity compared to single sample testing in medical staff in a hospital in Germany. Among 280 samples tested (8 positive, 3%), the sensitivity was 29% in pooling with 10 samples (2\/7 pools) and 76% in pooling with 5 samples (13\/17 pools). In contrast to other studies, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/23\/pooling-is-an-insufficient-strategy-to-avoid-health-care-staff-to-patient-transmission-of-sars-cov-2\/\">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":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-2330","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\/2330","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=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}