{"id":4862,"date":"2020-03-05T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T22:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2021-02-23T14:52:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T22:52:02","slug":"air-surface-environmental-and-personal-protective-equipment-contamination-by-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-from-a-symptomatic-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/05\/air-surface-environmental-and-personal-protective-equipment-contamination-by-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-from-a-symptomatic-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Air, Surface Environmental, and Personal Protective Equipment Contamination by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) From a Symptomatic Patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An environmental hygiene study was conducted at a COVID-19 outbreak center in Singapore. Samples included surface samples taken at 26 sites, air samples, and PPE samples from physicians leaving patient rooms. Authors also describe sampling results post-cleaning. Overall, contamination via respiratory droplets and fecal shedding were a primary concern with findings emphasizing the importance of proper infection control and hygiene practices.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Xiang et al. (Mar 4, 2020). Air, Surface Environmental, and Personal Protective Equipment Contamination by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) From a Symptomatic Patient. JAMA.<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2762692\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2762692<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An environmental hygiene study was conducted at a COVID-19 outbreak center in Singapore. Samples included surface samples taken at 26 sites, air samples, and PPE samples from physicians leaving patient rooms. Authors also describe sampling results post-cleaning. Overall, contamination via respiratory droplets and fecal shedding were a primary concern with findings emphasizing the importance of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/05\/air-surface-environmental-and-personal-protective-equipment-contamination-by-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-from-a-symptomatic-patient\/\">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-4862","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\/4862","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=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4863,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/4863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}