{"id":4221,"date":"2020-02-12T15:48:32","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T23:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:16:09","slug":"ophthalmologic-evidence-against-the-interpersonal-transmission-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-through-conjunctiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/12\/ophthalmologic-evidence-against-the-interpersonal-transmission-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-through-conjunctiva\/","title":{"rendered":"Ophthalmologic evidence against the interpersonal transmission of 2019 novel coronavirus through conjunctiva"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A case series of 67 2019-nCoV pneumonia patients (NCP) was evaluated to assess possible 2019-nCoV transmission from aerosol contact with the conjunctiva. A conjunctival swab sample from one patient with no ocular symptoms was RT-PCR positive; one patient with conjunctivitis was RT-PCR negative. [<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Note: <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The weak study design did not address their hypothesis, but the lab findings are potentially of interest.]<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zhou Y, et al (Feb 12, 2020) Ophthalmologic evidence against the interpersonal transmission of 2019 novel coronavirus through conjunctiva. Pre-print accessed Feb 12 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.02.11.20021956v1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.02.11.20021956v1<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A case series of 67 2019-nCoV pneumonia patients (NCP) was evaluated to assess possible 2019-nCoV transmission from aerosol contact with the conjunctiva. A conjunctival swab sample from one patient with no ocular symptoms was RT-PCR positive; one patient with conjunctivitis was RT-PCR negative. [Note: The weak study design did not address their hypothesis, but the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/12\/ophthalmologic-evidence-against-the-interpersonal-transmission-of-2019-novel-coronavirus-through-conjunctiva\/\">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-4221","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\/4221","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=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4222,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}