{"id":6886,"date":"2021-03-17T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6886"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:17:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:17:14","slug":"spread-of-a-variant-sars-cov-2-in-long-term-care-facilities-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/17\/spread-of-a-variant-sars-cov-2-in-long-term-care-facilities-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Spread of a Variant SARS-CoV-2 in Long-Term Care Facilities in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The proportion of SARS-CoV-2-positive samples that had an S gene target failure (suggestive of the B.1.1.7 strain) rose dramatically in late 2020 in the UK. The number and proportion of samples with S gene target failure increased from 12% to 60% between November 16 and December 13. By December 7, in South East England 57% of samples from adults under the age of 65 and 76% of those obtained from those over age 65 had\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0gene target failure. Sequencing data were only available from two samples with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">S<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0gene target failure from long-term care facilities, both of which were found to be B.1.1.7.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Krutikov et al.\u00a0(Mar 16, 2021). Spread of a Variant SARS-CoV-2 in Long-Term Care Facilities in England. New England Journal of Medicine. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1056\/NEJMc2035906\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1056\/NEJMc2035906<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proportion of SARS-CoV-2-positive samples that had an S gene target failure (suggestive of the B.1.1.7 strain) rose dramatically in late 2020 in the UK. The number and proportion of samples with S gene target failure increased from 12% to 60% between November 16 and December 13. By December 7, in South East England 57%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/17\/spread-of-a-variant-sars-cov-2-in-long-term-care-facilities-in-england\/\">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":[54,38,159],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","tag-transmission","tag-variants","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886","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=6886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6887,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6886\/revisions\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6886"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}