{"id":593,"date":"2020-08-28T09:27:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=593"},"modified":"2020-09-03T09:28:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T16:28:59","slug":"prevalence-of-surface-contamination-with-sars-cov-2-in-a-radiation-oncology-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/28\/prevalence-of-surface-contamination-with-sars-cov-2-in-a-radiation-oncology-clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of Surface Contamination With SARS-CoV-2 in a Radiation Oncology Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In a quality improvement study of a radiation oncology department in New Jersey, 128 environmental swabs were obtained following WHO protocols over 6 days from May 1 to May 13 (peak daily rate for New Jersey), of which none were positive for SARS-CoV-2. The investigators suggest routine cleaning and disinfecting protocols appear to be adequate for limiting fomite transmission of SARS-CoV-2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Jan et al. (Aug 27, 2020). Prevalence of Surface Contamination With SARS-CoV-2 in a Radiation Oncology Clinic. JAMA Oncology. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamaoncol.2020.3552\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamaoncol.2020.3552<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a quality improvement study of a radiation oncology department in New Jersey, 128 environmental swabs were obtained following WHO protocols over 6 days from May 1 to May 13 (peak daily rate for New Jersey), of which none were positive for SARS-CoV-2. The investigators suggest routine cleaning and disinfecting protocols appear to be adequate&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/28\/prevalence-of-surface-contamination-with-sars-cov-2-in-a-radiation-oncology-clinic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}