{"id":6250,"date":"2021-03-09T21:16:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6250"},"modified":"2021-03-09T21:16:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T05:16:04","slug":"a-rapid-method-to-evaluate-pre-travel-testing-programs-for-covid-19-a-study-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/09\/a-rapid-method-to-evaluate-pre-travel-testing-programs-for-covid-19-a-study-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rapid Method to Evaluate Pre-Travel Testing Programs for COVID-19 A Study in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> A rapid field study conducted in the Kahului main airport in Maui, Hawaii identified 2 SARS-CoV-2 PCR positive participants out of 279 consecutively sampled participants boarding for departure, despite all participants having a negative PCR test 72 hours prior. This positivity rate corresponded to 7 cases per 1,000 travelers, which corresponds to an estimated 52-70 infected travelers arriving daily to Hawaii during November to December 2020. Participants were sampled anonymously at the time of departure to avoid interfering with travel plans, but had to have a \u226414 day stay in Hawaii to be eligible for the study.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Hou et al.\u00a0(Mar 8, 2021). A Rapid Method to Evaluate Pre-Travel Testing Programs for COVID-19 A Study in Hawaii. Pre-print downloaded Mar 9 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.06.21251482\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.06.21251482<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A rapid field study conducted in the Kahului main airport in Maui, Hawaii identified 2 SARS-CoV-2 PCR positive participants out of 279 consecutively sampled participants boarding for departure, despite all participants having a negative PCR test 72 hours prior. This positivity rate corresponded to 7 cases per 1,000 travelers, which corresponds to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/09\/a-rapid-method-to-evaluate-pre-travel-testing-programs-for-covid-19-a-study-in-hawaii\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,116],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-6250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","tag-travel","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6251,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6250\/revisions\/6251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6250"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}