{"id":7128,"date":"2020-05-27T17:19:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T00:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:20:22","slug":"sars-cov-2-rna-detected-in-blood-samples-from-patients-with-covid-19-is-not-associated-with-infectious-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/27\/sars-cov-2-rna-detected-in-blood-samples-from-patients-with-covid-19-is-not-associated-with-infectious-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 RNA Detected in Blood Samples from Patients with COVID-19 Is Not Associated with Infectious Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">pre-print, not peer reviewed<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2 RNA<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was detectable<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in blood samples<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0at low viral loads\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">up to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">20\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">day<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">after\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">symptom onset<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">27<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">212 (12.7%)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19 cases. However, there was no evidence of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">infectious SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">based on\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">inoculating PCR-positive sera into cell culture.<\/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\">Andersson et al. (May 26, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 RNA Detected in Blood Samples from Patients with COVID-19 Is Not Associated with Infectious Virus. Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 27 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.21.20105486\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.21.20105486<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><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>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 RNA\u00a0was detectable\u00a0in blood samples\u00a0at low viral loads\u00a0up to\u00a020\u00a0days\u00a0after\u00a0symptom onset\u00a0in\u00a027\u00a0of\u00a0212 (12.7%)\u00a0COVID-19 cases. However, there was no evidence of\u00a0infectious SARS-CoV-2\u00a0based on\u00a0inoculating PCR-positive sera into cell culture.\u00a0 Andersson et al. (May 26, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 RNA Detected in Blood Samples from Patients with COVID-19 Is Not Associated with Infectious Virus. Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 27 from\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.21.20105486\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/27\/sars-cov-2-rna-detected-in-blood-samples-from-patients-with-covid-19-is-not-associated-with-infectious-virus\/\">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-7128","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\/7128","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=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7129,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions\/7129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}