{"id":5512,"date":"2020-03-27T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T23:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5512"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T00:24:04","slug":"absence-of-contamination-of-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-by-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/27\/absence-of-contamination-of-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-by-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Absence of contamination of personal protective equipment (PPE) by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To evaluate the safety of extended PPE use by HCWs treating COVID-19 patients, Ong et al perform a one-day sampling study on used PPE to ascertain the per contact episode risk of PPE contamination.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All 90 samples from 30 HCWs were negative.\u00a0 This provides assurance that extended use of N95 and goggles with strict adherence to environmental and hand hygiene could be a safe option.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ong et al. (Mar 27, 2020). Absence of contamination of personal protective equipment (PPE) by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Pre-print downloaded Mar 27 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.91\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/ice.2020.91<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To evaluate the safety of extended PPE use by HCWs treating COVID-19 patients, Ong et al perform a one-day sampling study on used PPE to ascertain the per contact episode risk of PPE contamination. All 90 samples from 30 HCWs were negative.\u00a0 This provides assurance that extended use of N95 and goggles with strict adherence&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/27\/absence-of-contamination-of-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-by-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2\/\">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":[16],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512","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=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5513,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions\/5513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}