{"id":6859,"date":"2020-05-15T17:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6859"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:31:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:31:30","slug":"estimating-the-extent-of-true-asymptomatic-covid-19-and-its-potential-for-community-transmission-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/15\/estimating-the-extent-of-true-asymptomatic-covid-19-and-its-potential-for-community-transmission-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating the Extent of True Asymptomatic COVID-19 and Its Potential for Community Transmission Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"38\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A systematic review that included 5 articles from three countries (China, USA, and Italy) report<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">pooled estimate of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the proportion of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">asymptomatic cases\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to be<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a016% (95% CI: 12%-20%). While the findings are lower than many highly publicized studies, the sampling frame for the US-based studies\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">only included residents, healthcare personnel, and visitors of long-term care facilities and may not\u00a0be a reflection of\u00a0the true role of asymptomatic cases in the US.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Byambasuren<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">May 15,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Estimating the Extent of True Asymptomatic COVID-19 and Its Potential for Community Transmission Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Preprint\u00a0downloaded May 15 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.10.20097543\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.10.20097543<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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>A systematic review that included 5 articles from three countries (China, USA, and Italy) reports\u00a0a\u00a0pooled estimate of\u00a0the proportion of\u00a0asymptomatic cases\u00a0to be\u00a016% (95% CI: 12%-20%). While the findings are lower than many highly publicized studies, the sampling frame for the US-based studies\u00a0only included residents, healthcare personnel, and visitors of long-term care facilities and may not\u00a0be a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/15\/estimating-the-extent-of-true-asymptomatic-covid-19-and-its-potential-for-community-transmission-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-6859","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\/6859","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=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6860,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions\/6860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}