{"id":2966,"date":"2020-12-30T13:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2020-12-31T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T21:08:44","slug":"prior-sars-cov-2-infection-is-associated-with-protection-against-symptomatic-reinfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/30\/prior-sars-cov-2-infection-is-associated-with-protection-against-symptomatic-reinfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection Is Associated with Protection against Symptomatic Reinfection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a retrospective cohort study of healthcare workers (HCW) (n=17,126) in the UK, HCW without confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection (negative PCR and serology) during the first wave experienced higher rates of symptomatic testing and PCR test positivity rates in the second wave 6 months later than HCW with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first wave. Only 12.3% of HCW with previous infection presented for symptomatic testing, compared to 20.8% of HCW without previous infection. No positive PCR tests were returned among HCW with previous infection, whereas HCW with no previous infection had a 13.7% test positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p><i>Hanrath et al. (Dec 26, 2020). Prior SARS-CoV-2 Infection Is Associated with Protection against Symptomatic Reinfection. Journal of Infection. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jinf.2020.12.023\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jinf.2020.12.023<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a retrospective cohort study of healthcare workers (HCW) (n=17,126) in the UK, HCW without confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection (negative PCR and serology) during the first wave experienced higher rates of symptomatic testing and PCR test positivity rates in the second wave 6 months later than HCW with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection during the first wave. Only&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/30\/prior-sars-cov-2-infection-is-associated-with-protection-against-symptomatic-reinfection\/\">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-2966","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\/2966","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=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}