{"id":6572,"date":"2021-03-15T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2021-03-16T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:46:47","slug":"a-follow-up-study-shows-that-recovered-patients-with-re-positive-pcr-test-in-wuhan-may-not-be-infectious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/15\/a-follow-up-study-shows-that-recovered-patients-with-re-positive-pcr-test-in-wuhan-may-not-be-infectious\/","title":{"rendered":"A Follow-up Study Shows That Recovered Patients with Re-Positive PCR Test in Wuhan May Not Be Infectious"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A follow-up study analyzing data from 20,280 COVID-19 patients from multiple centers in Wuhan, China who received a positive PCR result between December 2019 and August 2020 found that 2,466 (12.2%) patients tested positive again (2,238 of were asymptomatic) after being discharged from the hospital. None of the 4,079 close contacts of patients who tested positive again had a positive PCR test. The authors suggest this may provide evidence that these individuals who tested positive again were not infectious at the time of testing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wu et al.\u00a0(Mar 15, 2021). A Follow-up Study Shows That Recovered Patients with Re-Positive PCR Test in Wuhan May Not Be Infectious. BMC Medicine. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12916-021-01954-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12916-021-01954-1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A follow-up study analyzing data from 20,280 COVID-19 patients from multiple centers in Wuhan, China who received a positive PCR result between December 2019 and August 2020 found that 2,466 (12.2%) patients tested positive again (2,238 of were asymptomatic) after being discharged from the hospital. None of the 4,079 close contacts of patients who tested&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/15\/a-follow-up-study-shows-that-recovered-patients-with-re-positive-pcr-test-in-wuhan-may-not-be-infectious\/\">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":[57,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-reinfection","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572","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=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6573,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions\/6573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}