{"id":4630,"date":"2020-02-26T13:38:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T21:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:38:56","slug":"sars-cov-2-transmission-in-cancer-patients-of-a-tertiary-hospital-in-wuhan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/26\/sars-cov-2-transmission-in-cancer-patients-of-a-tertiary-hospital-in-wuhan\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 transmission in cancer patients of a tertiary hospital in Wuhan"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1,524 cancer patients were evaluated from Dec 30-Feb 17, of whom 12 developed COVID-19, representing a two-fold greater risk than the general population. Only five of these patients were undergoing cancer treatment, suggesting that hospital visits were likely the most relevant risk factor. Severe illness was not higher than in the general population. Considerations for appropriate isolation protocols for cancer patients undergoing treatment are discussed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yu et al. (Feb 25, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 transmission in cancer patients of a tertiary hospital in Wuhan. Pre-print downloaded Feb 26 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.22.20025320\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.02.22.20025320<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1,524 cancer patients were evaluated from Dec 30-Feb 17, of whom 12 developed COVID-19, representing a two-fold greater risk than the general population. Only five of these patients were undergoing cancer treatment, suggesting that hospital visits were likely the most relevant risk factor. Severe illness was not higher than in the general population. Considerations for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/26\/sars-cov-2-transmission-in-cancer-patients-of-a-tertiary-hospital-in-wuhan\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630","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=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4631,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}