{"id":677,"date":"2020-09-02T11:16:59","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T18:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=677"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T05:50:06","slug":"serological-identification-of-sars-cov-2-infections-among-children-visiting-a-hospital-during-the-initial-seattle-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/02\/serological-identification-of-sars-cov-2-infections-among-children-visiting-a-hospital-during-the-initial-seattle-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Serological Identification of SARS-CoV-2 Infections among Children Visiting a Hospital during the Initial Seattle Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Six of eight children who had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies detected in leftover clinical samples had not been suspected of having COVID-19. Dingens et al. screened 1,775 leftover serum samples from children seeking medical care at Seattle Children&#8217;s Hospital during the early Seattle outbreak period and found one child was seropositive with SARS-CoV-2 in March and seven were seropositive in April, for a seroprevalence of 1% during this period among this population of children seeking care. Only two of the children with positive antibodies had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR. <em>[EDITORIAL NOTE: A summary of a pre-print version of this manuscript appeared in the Lit Rep on May 28]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Dingens et al. (Sept 1, 2020). Serological Identification of SARS-CoV-2 Infections among Children Visiting a Hospital during the Initial Seattle Outbreak. Nature Communications. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-18178-1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-020-18178-1<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six of eight children who had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies detected in leftover clinical samples had not been suspected of having COVID-19. Dingens et al. screened 1,775 leftover serum samples from children seeking medical care at Seattle Children&#8217;s Hospital during the early Seattle outbreak period and found one child was seropositive with SARS-CoV-2 in March and seven&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/02\/serological-identification-of-sars-cov-2-infections-among-children-visiting-a-hospital-during-the-initial-seattle-outbreak\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41,32,68],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-immunity","tag-washington","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":678,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}