{"id":4741,"date":"2020-02-28T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2021-02-23T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:30:08","slug":"positive-rt-pcr-test-results-in-patients-recovered-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/28\/positive-rt-pcr-test-results-in-patients-recovered-from-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Positive RT-PCR test results in patients recovered from COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Four recovered patients with COVID-19 who met criteria for hospital discharge or discontinuation of quarantine in China were evaluated with RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 nucleic acid to determine if they could return to work. All had positive RT-PCR test results 5 to 13 days later which suggests a need to reevaluate current criteria for hospital discharge or discontinuation of quarantine and continued patient management.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lan et al. (February 27, 2020). Positive RT-PCR test results in patients recovered from COVID-19. JAMA Research Letter. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2762452\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2762452<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four recovered patients with COVID-19 who met criteria for hospital discharge or discontinuation of quarantine in China were evaluated with RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 nucleic acid to determine if they could return to work. All had positive RT-PCR test results 5 to 13 days later which suggests a need to reevaluate current criteria for hospital&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/28\/positive-rt-pcr-test-results-in-patients-recovered-from-covid-19\/\">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-4741","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\/4741","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=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4742,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}