{"id":7215,"date":"2020-05-29T12:11:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T19:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7215"},"modified":"2021-03-24T12:12:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:12:37","slug":"asymptomatic-transmission-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-implications-for-public-health-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/29\/asymptomatic-transmission-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-implications-for-public-health-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Asymptomatic Transmission during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Public Health Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Huff et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">completed a narrative review\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">summariz<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0emerging evidence that SARS-CoV-2 transmission is likely high during pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic phases<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Data from settings with<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0universal\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">testing, such as in a homeless shelter in Boston and on the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0US Navy aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">indicate\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a high proportion of individuals test positive without reporting symptoms<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">uthors\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">conclude that there is a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0need to shift from\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">testing of persons with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">symptom<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s to universal testing of exposed individuals<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/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\">Huff and Singh. (May 28,\u00a02020).\u00a0Asymptomatic Transmission during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for Public Health Strategies. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa654\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa654<\/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>Huff et al.\u00a0completed a narrative review\u00a0summarizing\u00a0emerging evidence that SARS-CoV-2 transmission is likely high during pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic phases. Data from settings with\u00a0universal\u00a0testing, such as in a homeless shelter in Boston and on the\u00a0US Navy aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt\u00a0indicate\u00a0that\u00a0a high proportion of individuals test positive without reporting symptoms.\u00a0The\u00a0authors\u00a0conclude that there is a\u00a0need to shift from\u00a0testing of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/29\/asymptomatic-transmission-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-implications-for-public-health-strategies\/\">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-7215","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\/7215","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=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7216,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}