{"id":7104,"date":"2020-05-26T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7104"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:00:08","slug":"coronavirus-disease-2019-test-results-after-clinical-recovery-and-hospital-discharge-among-patients-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/26\/coronavirus-disease-2019-test-results-after-clinical-recovery-and-hospital-discharge-among-patients-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Disease 2019 Test Results After Clinical Recovery and Hospital Discharge Among Patients in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"37\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">PCR tests on n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">asopharyngeal and anal swabs from\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">60\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients who had been hospitalized for COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">found evidence of persistent viral shedding following discharge. Samples were collected\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">4-24 days after index hospital discharge<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">10\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">out of 60 patients had\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">positive results (16.7%; 5 nasopharyngeal and 6 anal).\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">None of these patients had clinical symptoms of COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at the time of sample collection\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">except for occasional cough in two patients older than 70 with multiple comorbidities<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">; one such patient was PCR positive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">by both samples\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">56 days after illness onset<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Wu et al. (May 22, 2020). Coronavirus Disease 2019 Test Results After Clinical Recovery and Hospital Discharge Among Patients in China. JAMA Network Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.9759\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.9759<\/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>PCR tests on nasopharyngeal and anal swabs from\u00a060\u00a0patients who had been hospitalized for COVID-19\u00a0found evidence of persistent viral shedding following discharge. Samples were collected\u00a04-24 days after index hospital discharge\u00a0and\u00a010\u00a0out of 60 patients had\u00a0positive results (16.7%; 5 nasopharyngeal and 6 anal).\u00a0None of these patients had clinical symptoms of COVID-19\u00a0at the time of sample collection\u00a0except for occasional&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/26\/coronavirus-disease-2019-test-results-after-clinical-recovery-and-hospital-discharge-among-patients-in-china\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-7104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104","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=7104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7105,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions\/7105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7104"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}