{"id":2623,"date":"2020-12-08T12:16:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T20:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2020-12-09T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T20:18:44","slug":"dynamics-and-correlation-among-viral-positivity-seroconversion-and-disease-severity-in-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/08\/dynamics-and-correlation-among-viral-positivity-seroconversion-and-disease-severity-in-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamics and Correlation Among Viral Positivity, Seroconversion, and Disease Severity in COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being critically ill was an independent risk factor of longer PCR-confirmed viral positivity in a retrospective study of 2,142 COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China. The observed median duration of PCR-confirmed viral positivity was 24 days among critically ill patients and 18 days among non-critically ill-patients, with 20% of samples remaining positive after 5 weeks. Seroconversion rates peaked within 4 to 5 weeks, but low IgM titers were observed among those with persistent viral positivity.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fu et al. (Dec 8, 2020). Dynamics and Correlation Among Viral Positivity, Seroconversion, and Disease Severity in COVID-19. Annals of Internal Medicine. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7326\/M20-3337\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7326\/M20-3337<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being critically ill was an independent risk factor of longer PCR-confirmed viral positivity in a retrospective study of 2,142 COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, China. The observed median duration of PCR-confirmed viral positivity was 24 days among critically ill patients and 18 days among non-critically ill-patients, with 20% of samples remaining positive after 5 weeks. Seroconversion&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/08\/dynamics-and-correlation-among-viral-positivity-seroconversion-and-disease-severity-in-covid-19\/\">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":[34,32],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-immunity","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","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=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}