{"id":5055,"date":"2020-03-16T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T00:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2021-02-24T17:03:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T01:03:26","slug":"environmental-contamination-of-the-sars-cov-2-in-healthcare-premises-an-urgent-call-for-protection-for-healthcare-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/16\/environmental-contamination-of-the-sars-cov-2-in-healthcare-premises-an-urgent-call-for-protection-for-healthcare-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental contamination of the SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare premises: An urgent call for protection for healthcare workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this investigation of 626 surface samples in hospital in Wuhan, the authors describe the most contaminated zones, objects and personal protection equipment: ICU for novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP), 31.9%; Obstetric Isolation Ward for pregnant women with NCP, 28.1%; Isolation Ward for NCP, 19.6%; self-service printers, 20%; hand sanitizer dispenser, 20.3%; and gloves, 15.4%.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The findings emphasize the urgent need to ensure adequate environmental cleaning, strengthen infection prevention training, and improve precautions among HCWs during the COVID-19 outbreak.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ye et al. (Mar 11, 2020). Environmental contamination of the SARS-CoV-2 in healthcare premises: An urgent call for protection for healthcare workers. Pre-print downloaded Mar 16 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.11.20034546\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.11.20034546<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this investigation of 626 surface samples in hospital in Wuhan, the authors describe the most contaminated zones, objects and personal protection equipment: ICU for novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP), 31.9%; Obstetric Isolation Ward for pregnant women with NCP, 28.1%; Isolation Ward for NCP, 19.6%; self-service printers, 20%; hand sanitizer dispenser, 20.3%; and gloves, 15.4%.\u00a0 The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/16\/environmental-contamination-of-the-sars-cov-2-in-healthcare-premises-an-urgent-call-for-protection-for-healthcare-workers\/\">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-5055","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\/5055","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=5055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5056,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5055\/revisions\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5055"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}