{"id":6966,"date":"2021-03-18T15:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T22:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6966"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:24:28","slug":"transmission-dynamics-and-timing-of-key-events-for-sars-cov-2-infection-in-healthcare-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/18\/transmission-dynamics-and-timing-of-key-events-for-sars-cov-2-infection-in-healthcare-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission Dynamics and Timing of Key Events for SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Healthcare Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a retrospective study of healthcare workers (HCWs) in Turkey with SARS-CoV-2 infection (n=149), 98% of symptomatic HCWs had developed symptoms within 14 days of their index case developing symptoms. Among 39 HCW infector-infectee pairs, the median serial interval (time between symptom onset in the pair) was 4 days (IQR: 2-6). The authors suggest that rigorous contact tracing and isolation in this population could explain the shorter serial intervals than are typically observed in the general population (median 5-7 days).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emecen et al.\u00a0(Mar 17, 2021). Transmission Dynamics and Timing of Key Events for SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Healthcare Workers. Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23744235.2021.1900599\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/23744235.2021.1900599<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a retrospective study of healthcare workers (HCWs) in Turkey with SARS-CoV-2 infection (n=149), 98% of symptomatic HCWs had developed symptoms within 14 days of their index case developing symptoms. Among 39 HCW infector-infectee pairs, the median serial interval (time between symptom onset in the pair) was 4 days (IQR: 2-6). The authors suggest that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/18\/transmission-dynamics-and-timing-of-key-events-for-sars-cov-2-infection-in-healthcare-workers\/\">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":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966","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=6966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6967,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6966\/revisions\/6967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6966"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}