{"id":6466,"date":"2020-04-30T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:01:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T23:01:16","slug":"the-role-of-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-rapid-living-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/30\/the-role-of-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-rapid-living-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections: rapid living systematic review and meta-analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Findings from this systematic review suggest that most SARS-CoV-2 infections are not asymptomatic throughout the course of infection, contrary to modeling studies that have suggested that 80-90% of SARS-CoV-2 transmissions are asymptomatic. From 8 included studies, the authors estimated the upper bound for the proportion of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections to be 29% (95% CI: 23-37%).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An intermediate contribution of pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic infections to overall SARS-CoV-2 transmission means that combination prevention, with enhanced hand and respiratory hygiene, testing, tracing and isolation strategies, and social distancing, will continue to be needed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Buitrago-Garcia et al. (Apr 29, 2020). The role of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections: rapid living systematic review and meta-analysis. Pre-print downloaded Apr 30 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.25.20079103\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.25.20079103<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Findings from this systematic review suggest that most SARS-CoV-2 infections are not asymptomatic throughout the course of infection, contrary to modeling studies that have suggested that 80-90% of SARS-CoV-2 transmissions are asymptomatic. From 8 included studies, the authors estimated the upper bound for the proportion of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections to be 29% (95% CI: 23-37%)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/30\/the-role-of-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-rapid-living-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/\">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-6466","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\/6466","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=6466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6467,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6466\/revisions\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6466"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}