{"id":5912,"date":"2020-04-14T14:58:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T21:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2021-03-05T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T22:59:18","slug":"transmission-of-covid-19-to-health-care-personnel-during-exposures-to-a-hospitalized-patient-solano-county-california-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/14\/transmission-of-covid-19-to-health-care-personnel-during-exposures-to-a-hospitalized-patient-solano-county-california-february-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission of COVID-19 to Health Care Personnel During Exposures to a Hospitalized Patient \u2014 Solano County, California, February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CDC presents data on 121 heath care personnel (HCP) exposed to the first confirmed case of community-acquired COVID-19, of whom 43 developed symptoms during the 14 days after exposure and 3 had positive test results.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unprotected, prolonged patient contact, as well as certain exposures, including some aerosol-generating procedures, were associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in HCP. Early recognition and isolation of patients with possible infection and use of recommended PPE can help minimize exposures and protect the health care workforce.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Heinzerling et al. (April 14, 2020). Transmission of COVID-19 to Health Care Personnel During Exposures to a Hospitalized Patient \u2014 Solano County, California, February 2020. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/pdfs\/mm6915e5-H.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/pdfs\/mm6915e5-H.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDC presents data on 121 heath care personnel (HCP) exposed to the first confirmed case of community-acquired COVID-19, of whom 43 developed symptoms during the 14 days after exposure and 3 had positive test results.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Unprotected, prolonged patient contact, as well as certain exposures, including some aerosol-generating procedures, were associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/14\/transmission-of-covid-19-to-health-care-personnel-during-exposures-to-a-hospitalized-patient-solano-county-california-february-2020\/\">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-5912","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\/5912","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=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5913,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}