{"id":5620,"date":"2020-04-02T15:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T22:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5620"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:03:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:03:45","slug":"environment-and-personal-protective-equipment-tests-for-sars-cov-2-in-the-isolation-room-of-an-infant-with-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/environment-and-personal-protective-equipment-tests-for-sars-cov-2-in-the-isolation-room-of-an-infant-with-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment and Personal Protective Equipment Tests for SARS\u2013CoV-2 in the Isolation Room of an Infant With Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samples were taken from an isolation environment and PPE used while treating a confirmed COVID-19 infant case with mild clinical symptoms. All 3 PPE samples tested negative for SARS-CoV-2, however multiple environmental samples were found to be positive.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This investigation confirmed that a generally healthy infant with COVID-19 can contaminate the environment with PCR-detectable virus, reaffirming the importance of hand hygiene to reduce environmental transmission.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yung et al. (April 1, 2020). Environment and Personal Protective Equipment Tests for SARS\u2013CoV-2 in the Isolation Room of an Infant With Infection. Annals of Intern Med. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7326\/M20-0942\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7326\/M20-0942<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samples were taken from an isolation environment and PPE used while treating a confirmed COVID-19 infant case with mild clinical symptoms. All 3 PPE samples tested negative for SARS-CoV-2, however multiple environmental samples were found to be positive. This investigation confirmed that a generally healthy infant with COVID-19 can contaminate the environment with PCR-detectable virus,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/environment-and-personal-protective-equipment-tests-for-sars-cov-2-in-the-isolation-room-of-an-infant-with-infection\/\">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-5620","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\/5620","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=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions\/5621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}