{"id":4154,"date":"2020-02-10T14:47:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:18:10","slug":"the-rate-of-underascertainment-of-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-infection-estimation-using-japanese-passengers-data-on-evacuation-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/10\/the-rate-of-underascertainment-of-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-infection-estimation-using-japanese-passengers-data-on-evacuation-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rate of Underascertainment of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection: Estimation Using Japanese Passengers Data on Evacuation Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">565 Japanese citizens were evacuated from Wuhan at the end of January and were screened for 2019-nCoV symptoms (63 symptomatic) and tested (8 tested positive by RT-PCR, 5 of whom were asymptomatic).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using data from these travelers, researchers estimated the rate of under-ascertainment of cases in Wuhan to be 9.2%. This would suggest a true case fatality far lower than recent estimates, likely closer to 0.3-0.6%.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nishiura et al. (Feb 4, 2020). The Rate of Underascertainment of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection: Estimation Using Japanese Passengers Data on Evacuation Flights. J Clin Med.<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/jcm9020419\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/jcm9020419<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>565 Japanese citizens were evacuated from Wuhan at the end of January and were screened for 2019-nCoV symptoms (63 symptomatic) and tested (8 tested positive by RT-PCR, 5 of whom were asymptomatic).\u00a0 Using data from these travelers, researchers estimated the rate of under-ascertainment of cases in Wuhan to be 9.2%. This would suggest a true&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/10\/the-rate-of-underascertainment-of-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-infection-estimation-using-japanese-passengers-data-on-evacuation-flights\/\">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-4154","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\/4154","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=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4155,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/4155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}