{"id":5639,"date":"2020-04-03T15:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5639"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:16:58","slug":"sars-cov-2-is-not-detectable-in-the-vaginal-fluid-of-women-with-severe-covid-19-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/sars-cov-2-is-not-detectable-in-the-vaginal-fluid-of-women-with-severe-covid-19-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 is not detectable in the vaginal fluid of women with severe COVID-19 infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Findings from a group of 10 post-menopausal women with confirmed severe COVID-19 pneumonia from 1 hospital in Wuhan suggest that SARS-CoV-2 does not enter the vaginal fluid. This suggests that that the likelihood of transmitting the virus to sexual partners through vaginal fluids may be low.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Qiu et al. (Apr 2, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 is not detectable in the vaginal fluid of women with severe COVID-19 infection. Clin Infect Dis. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa375\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa375<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings from a group of 10 post-menopausal women with confirmed severe COVID-19 pneumonia from 1 hospital in Wuhan suggest that SARS-CoV-2 does not enter the vaginal fluid. This suggests that that the likelihood of transmitting the virus to sexual partners through vaginal fluids may be low.\u00a0 Qiu et al. (Apr 2, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 is not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/03\/sars-cov-2-is-not-detectable-in-the-vaginal-fluid-of-women-with-severe-covid-19-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-5639","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\/5639","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=5639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5640,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5639\/revisions\/5640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5639"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}