{"id":2557,"date":"2020-12-04T14:50:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2020-12-07T14:52:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:52:09","slug":"identification-of-presymptomatic-and-asymptomatic-cases-using-cohort-based-testing-approaches-at-a-large-correctional-facility-chicago-illinois-usa-may-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/04\/identification-of-presymptomatic-and-asymptomatic-cases-using-cohort-based-testing-approaches-at-a-large-correctional-facility-chicago-illinois-usa-may-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Identification of Presymptomatic and Asymptomatic Cases Using Cohort-Based Testing Approaches at a Large Correctional Facility \u2013 Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Cohort-based SARS-CoV-2 testing among detained persons in a Chicago jail who had been exposed to individuals with laboratory-confirmed infection found that the approach identified infected individuals who would not have be detected by symptom screening, with more than half of newly-identified cases either presymptomatic or asymptomatic. Two testing strategies were evaluated, the first involved serial testing at 3 time points over 14 days (n=137) and the second involved a single test and interview at the end of a 14-day quarantine period (day 14 group) (n=87). Overall, 19 of 172 people tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Cohort-based testing at the start of quarantine identified the majority of SARS-CoV-2 infections (16\/19, 84%), while only two cases (11%) were identified in the day 14 group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wadhwa et al. (Dec 3, 2020). Identification of Presymptomatic and Asymptomatic Cases Using Cohort-Based Testing Approaches at a Large Correctional Facility \u2013 Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 2020. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1802\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1802<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cohort-based SARS-CoV-2 testing among detained persons in a Chicago jail who had been exposed to individuals with laboratory-confirmed infection found that the approach identified infected individuals who would not have be detected by symptom screening, with more than half of newly-identified cases either presymptomatic or asymptomatic. Two testing strategies were evaluated, the first involved serial&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/04\/identification-of-presymptomatic-and-asymptomatic-cases-using-cohort-based-testing-approaches-at-a-large-correctional-facility-chicago-illinois-usa-may-2020\/\">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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-2557","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\/2557","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=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}