{"id":6286,"date":"2020-04-24T13:55:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T20:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2021-03-10T13:56:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:56:38","slug":"prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-previously-undiagnosed-health-care-workers-at-the-onset-of-the-u-s-covid-19-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/24\/prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-previously-undiagnosed-health-care-workers-at-the-onset-of-the-u-s-covid-19-epidemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in previously undiagnosed health care workers at the onset of the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barrett et al report on the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in previously undiagnosed U.S. healthcare workers in the early phase of the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic. They report a prevalence of 7.3 and 0.4% SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthcare and non-healthcare workers, respectively. They attribute the 7.0% greater absolute risk to high levels of close patient contact by healthcare workers and call for additional strategies to protect these critical frontline workers.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barrett et al. (Apr 24, 2020). Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in previously undiagnosed health care workers at the onset of the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic. Pre-print downloaded Apr 24 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.20.20072470\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.20.20072470<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrett et al report on the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in previously undiagnosed U.S. healthcare workers in the early phase of the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic. They report a prevalence of 7.3 and 0.4% SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthcare and non-healthcare workers, respectively. They attribute the 7.0% greater absolute risk to high levels of close patient contact&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/24\/prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-previously-undiagnosed-health-care-workers-at-the-onset-of-the-u-s-covid-19-epidemic\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286","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=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}