{"id":4117,"date":"2020-02-07T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:18:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:18:54","slug":"2019-ncov-transmission-through-the-ocular-surface-must-not-be-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/07\/2019-ncov-transmission-through-the-ocular-surface-must-not-be-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"2019-nCoV transmission through the ocular surface must not be Ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ophthalmologists in China report a case 2019-nCoV that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">may<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> have been caused by ocular infection (eyes). Infectious droplet transmission through the conjunctival epithelium was documented previously for SARS-CoV and the authors suggest that precautions should be taken to prevent similar transmission from 2019-nCoV patients.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lu et al. (Feb 6, 2020). 2019-nCoV transmission through the ocular surface must not be <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ignored. The Lancet.<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)30313-5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)30313-5<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ophthalmologists in China report a case 2019-nCoV that may have been caused by ocular infection (eyes). Infectious droplet transmission through the conjunctival epithelium was documented previously for SARS-CoV and the authors suggest that precautions should be taken to prevent similar transmission from 2019-nCoV patients.\u00a0 Lu et al. (Feb 6, 2020). 2019-nCoV transmission through the ocular&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/07\/2019-ncov-transmission-through-the-ocular-surface-must-not-be-ignored\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}