{"id":3033,"date":"2021-01-05T13:59:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T21:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3033"},"modified":"2021-01-06T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T22:00:53","slug":"rapid-transmission-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-in-detention-facility-louisiana-usa-may-june-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/05\/rapid-transmission-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-in-detention-facility-louisiana-usa-may-june-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Detention Facility, Louisiana, USA, May\u2013June, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cohort investigation in a detention facility in Louisiana identified rapid transmission and high cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among quarantined inmates. Among 143 persons in 6 quarantined dormitories tested using serial nasal swabs, 53 were PCR positive at initial testing and an additional 58 persons tested positive at later time points (cumulative incidence 78%). In 1 dormitory where all 45 detained persons were PCR negative at initial testing, 40 (89%) were positive 18 days later. Among persons who tested positive, 47% (52\/111) had asymptomatic infection at the time of testing.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wallace et al. (Jan 4, 2021). Rapid Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Detention Facility, Louisiana, USA, May\u2013June, 2020. Emerging Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2702.204158\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2702.204158<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cohort investigation in a detention facility in Louisiana identified rapid transmission and high cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among quarantined inmates. Among 143 persons in 6 quarantined dormitories tested using serial nasal swabs, 53 were PCR positive at initial testing and an additional 58 persons tested positive at later time points (cumulative incidence 78%)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/05\/rapid-transmission-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-in-detention-facility-louisiana-usa-may-june-2020\/\">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":[27],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","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=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}