{"id":2627,"date":"2020-12-08T12:21:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T20:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2020-12-09T12:23:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T20:23:35","slug":"sars-cov-2-infection-and-covid-19-severity-in-individuals-with-prior-seasonal-coronavirus-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/08\/sars-cov-2-infection-and-covid-19-severity-in-individuals-with-prior-seasonal-coronavirus-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Severity in Individuals with Prior Seasonal Coronavirus Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/i> Similar SARS-CoV-2 infection rates were observed between people with a prior PCR test for seasonal coronavirus that was positive (3.3%) or negative(3.1%) in a retrospective study among individuals with documented PCR testing for seasonal coronavirus and a subsequent PCR result for SARS-CoV-2 (n=2,768). The authors suggest this finding implies that past infection with seasonal coronavirus does not provide immunity from nor modulate the severity of a subsequent SARS-CoV-2 infection.<\/p>\n<p><i>Gombar et al. (Dec 7, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19 Severity in Individuals with Prior Seasonal Coronavirus Infection. Pre-print downloaded Dec 8 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.12.04.20243741\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.12.04.20243741<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Similar SARS-CoV-2 infection rates were observed between people with a prior PCR test for seasonal coronavirus that was positive (3.3%) or negative(3.1%) in a retrospective study among individuals with documented PCR testing for seasonal coronavirus and a subsequent PCR result for SARS-CoV-2 (n=2,768). The authors suggest this finding implies that past&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/08\/sars-cov-2-infection-and-covid-19-severity-in-individuals-with-prior-seasonal-coronavirus-infection\/\">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":[32],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-2627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-immunity","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627","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=2627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2627\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2627"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}