{"id":5711,"date":"2020-04-07T16:22:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5711"},"modified":"2021-03-03T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T00:23:36","slug":"toilets-dominate-environmental-detection-of-sars-cov-2-virus-in-a-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/07\/toilets-dominate-environmental-detection-of-sars-cov-2-virus-in-a-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Toilets dominate environmental detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus in a hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors tested 107 surface samples from 4 isolation rooms housing 10 COVID-19 patients in a Chinese hospital. Fecal-derived aerosols in the patients\u2019 toilets contained most of the detected SARS-CoV-2 virus in the hospital, highlighting the importance of surface and hand hygiene for intervention as well as the importance of hygiene in both private and public toilets.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ding et al. (Apr 3, 2020). Toilets dominate environmental detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus in a hospital. Pre-print downloaded Apr 7 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.04.03.20052175v1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.03.20052175<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors tested 107 surface samples from 4 isolation rooms housing 10 COVID-19 patients in a Chinese hospital. Fecal-derived aerosols in the patients\u2019 toilets contained most of the detected SARS-CoV-2 virus in the hospital, highlighting the importance of surface and hand hygiene for intervention as well as the importance of hygiene in both private and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/07\/toilets-dominate-environmental-detection-of-sars-cov-2-virus-in-a-hospital\/\">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-5711","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\/5711","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=5711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5712,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5711\/revisions\/5712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5711"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}