{"id":6808,"date":"2020-05-13T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:01:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:01:27","slug":"prolonged-viral-rna-shedding-after-covid-19-symptom-resolution-in-older-convalescent-plasma-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/13\/prolonged-viral-rna-shedding-after-covid-19-symptom-resolution-in-older-convalescent-plasma-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolonged Viral RNA Shedding after COVID-19 Symptom Resolution in Older Convalescent Plasma Donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"47\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Re-testing of 86 previously SARS-CoV-2 positive patients from a Wisconsin\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tertiary<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0care center after self-reported symptom resolution showed that 11 (13%) were still positive at a median of 19 days (range 12-24 days) after symptom resolution. Patients who re-tested positive were not significantly different from test-negative patients with respect to days since symptom recovery.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"47\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To the extent that detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA following the resolution of symptoms is indicative of potential infectiousness, screening for COVID-19 convalescent plasma donors may need to occur later than the currently recommended two weeks following &#8220;recovery.&#8221;<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hess and Hartman. (May 12,\u00a02020).\u00a0Prolonged Viral RNA Shedding after COVID-19 Symptom Resolution in Older Convalescent Plasma Donors. Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 13 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.07.20090621\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.07.20090621<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-testing of 86 previously SARS-CoV-2 positive patients from a Wisconsin\u00a0tertiary\u00a0care center after self-reported symptom resolution showed that 11 (13%) were still positive at a median of 19 days (range 12-24 days) after symptom resolution. Patients who re-tested positive were not significantly different from test-negative patients with respect to days since symptom recovery.\u00a0\u00a0 To the extent&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/13\/prolonged-viral-rna-shedding-after-covid-19-symptom-resolution-in-older-convalescent-plasma-donors\/\">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":[19],"class_list":["post-6808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808","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=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6809,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/6809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}