{"id":2510,"date":"2020-12-02T12:54:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T20:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:56:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:56:32","slug":"high-anal-swab-viral-load-predisposes-adverse-clinical-outcomes-in-severe-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/02\/high-anal-swab-viral-load-predisposes-adverse-clinical-outcomes-in-severe-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"High Anal Swab Viral Load Predisposes Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Severe COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Higher viral load of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in anal swab samples was associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes including death (OR=1.4), ICU admission (OR=1.2) and need for invasive mechanical ventilation (OR=1.3) among a cohort of 188 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in China. The period from symptom onset to positive virus detection was also significantly shorter in non-survivors than in survivors (median 14\u00a0vs.\u00a019 days,\u00a0p=0.007).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Li et al. (Dec 1, 2020). High Anal Swab Viral Load Predisposes Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Severe COVID-19 Patients. Emerging Microbes &amp; Infections. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/22221751.2020.1858700\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/22221751.2020.1858700<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher viral load of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in anal swab samples was associated with severe COVID-19 outcomes including death (OR=1.4), ICU admission (OR=1.2) and need for invasive mechanical ventilation (OR=1.3) among a cohort of 188 hospitalized COVID-19 patients in China. The period from symptom onset to positive virus detection was also significantly shorter in non-survivors than&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/02\/high-anal-swab-viral-load-predisposes-adverse-clinical-outcomes-in-severe-covid-19-patients\/\">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":[34,27],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-testing","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510","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=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2511,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}