{"id":5684,"date":"2020-04-06T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5684"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:46:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:46:31","slug":"severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-rna-detected-in-blood-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-rna-detected-in-blood-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 RNA Detected in Blood Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wuhan Blood Center screened donations for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in real-time and retrospectively and found plasma samples positive for viral RNA from 4 asymptomatic donors.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The study suggest that donors should call the blood donation center if they have any COVID-19 symptoms after donating, in case the donation occurred during the COVID-19 incubation period, and donations should be screened for viral RNA with high-sensitivity assays to ensure blood safety.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chang et al. (Apr 3, 2020). Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 RNA Detected in Blood Donations. CDC Emerg Infect Dis <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/26\/7\/20-0839_article\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/article\/26\/7\/20-0839_article<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wuhan Blood Center screened donations for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in real-time and retrospectively and found plasma samples positive for viral RNA from 4 asymptomatic donors.\u00a0 The study suggest that donors should call the blood donation center if they have any COVID-19 symptoms after donating, in case the donation occurred during the COVID-19 incubation period, and donations&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-rna-detected-in-blood-donations\/\">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":[19],"class_list":["post-5684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684","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=5684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5685,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5684\/revisions\/5685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5684"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}