{"id":5328,"date":"2020-03-19T14:02:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T21:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2021-03-02T14:03:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T22:03:47","slug":"estimating-unobserved-sars-cov-2-infections-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/19\/estimating-unobserved-sars-cov-2-infections-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating unobserved SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Using a simulation model informed by reported cases and deaths, the authors estimate that tens of thousands of people (median of 22,876 people) were infected by the time a national emergency was declared in the US on March 13<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Results from the model suggest that fewer than 10% of locally acquired symptomatic infections in the US had been detected until February.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This highlights the need for immediate, large-scale efforts to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on the US\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perkins et al. (Mar 15, 2020). Estimating unobserved SARS-CoV-2 infections in the United States. Pre-print downloaded Mar 19 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.15.20036582\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.15.20036582<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a simulation model informed by reported cases and deaths, the authors estimate that tens of thousands of people (median of 22,876 people) were infected by the time a national emergency was declared in the US on March 13th. Results from the model suggest that fewer than 10% of locally acquired symptomatic infections in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/19\/estimating-unobserved-sars-cov-2-infections-in-the-united-states\/\">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-5328","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\/5328","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=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5329,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions\/5329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}