{"id":6307,"date":"2020-04-27T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T21:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2021-03-10T14:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T22:09:52","slug":"presymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-and-transmission-in-a-skilled-nursing-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/27\/presymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-and-transmission-in-a-skilled-nursing-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Transmission in a Skilled Nursing Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This study assessed transmission and evaluated the adequacy of symptom-based screening to identify infections in residents in a skilled nursing facility. Of the 48 residents registered for the study, 56% were asymptomatic at second testing and 50% subsequently developed symptoms. A RT-PCR sequencing of specimens isolated from 34 residents fitted into two clusters with a difference of one nucleotide. They concluded that there was rapid and widespread transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in this facility, with more than 50% positive test cases being asymptomatic. They warn that infection-control strategies based solely on symptomatic cases may not be sufficient to prevent transmission after SARS-CoV-2 introduction into the facility.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arons et al. (April 23, 2020). Presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Transmission in a Skilled Nursing Facility. NEJM. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2008457\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1056\/NEJMoa2008457<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This study assessed transmission and evaluated the adequacy of symptom-based screening to identify infections in residents in a skilled nursing facility. Of the 48 residents registered for the study, 56% were asymptomatic at second testing and 50% subsequently developed symptoms. A RT-PCR sequencing of specimens isolated from 34 residents fitted into two clusters with a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/27\/presymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-and-transmission-in-a-skilled-nursing-facility\/\">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-6307","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\/6307","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=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6308,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}