{"id":2938,"date":"2020-12-28T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:32:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T19:32:32","slug":"assessment-of-air-contamination-by-sars-cov-2-in-hospital-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/28\/assessment-of-air-contamination-by-sars-cov-2-in-hospital-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment of Air Contamination by SARS-CoV-2 in Hospital Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a systematic review of 24 studies evaluating the level of air contamination from SARS-CoV-2 in different hospital areas and factors associated with contamination, 17% of air samples from close patient environments were positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA, with viability of the virus found in 9% of cultures. There was no significant difference in positivity between samples collected from within 1 meter of patients (2.5% positive) or 1 to 5 meters (5.5% positive, p=0.22). High viral loads were found in toilets and bathrooms, staff areas, and public hallways.<\/p>\n<p><i>Birgand et al. (Dec 23, 2020). Assessment of Air Contamination by SARS-CoV-2 in Hospital Settings. JAMA Network Open.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.33232\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.33232<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a systematic review of 24 studies evaluating the level of air contamination from SARS-CoV-2 in different hospital areas and factors associated with contamination, 17% of air samples from close patient environments were positive for SARS-CoV-2 RNA, with viability of the virus found in 9% of cultures. There was no significant difference in positivity between&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/28\/assessment-of-air-contamination-by-sars-cov-2-in-hospital-settings\/\">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":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938","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=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2939,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}