{"id":3093,"date":"2021-01-07T12:46:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T20:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3093"},"modified":"2021-01-08T12:48:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:48:46","slug":"insight-into-the-reason-of-prolonged-viral-rna-shedding-in-patients-with-covid-19-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/07\/insight-into-the-reason-of-prolonged-viral-rna-shedding-in-patients-with-covid-19-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Insight into the Reason of Prolonged Viral RNA Shedding in Patients with COVID-19 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cohort study (n=681) in Italy found that older age was independently associated with prolonged viral shedding. Patients who first had two consecutive negative nasopharyngeal swabs 1-2 days apart within &lt;3 weeks, 3-6 weeks, and &gt;6 weeks, had a mean age of 50.5 years, 57 years, and 65.8 years, respectively (p&lt;0.05).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Bongiovanni et al. (Jan 3, 2021).cInsight into the Reason of Prolonged Viral RNA Shedding in Patients with COVID-19 Infection. Journal of Infection. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jinf.2020.12.030\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jinf.2020.12.030<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cohort study (n=681) in Italy found that older age was independently associated with prolonged viral shedding. Patients who first had two consecutive negative nasopharyngeal swabs 1-2 days apart within &lt;3 weeks, 3-6 weeks, and &gt;6 weeks, had a mean age of 50.5 years, 57 years, and 65.8 years, respectively (p&lt;0.05).\u00a0 Bongiovanni et al. (Jan&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/07\/insight-into-the-reason-of-prolonged-viral-rna-shedding-in-patients-with-covid-19-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":[34],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-3093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093","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=3093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3093\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3093"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}