{"id":727,"date":"2020-09-03T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T22:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=727"},"modified":"2020-09-08T15:19:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T22:19:58","slug":"sars-cov-2-surveillance-in-decedents-in-a-large-urban-medical-examiners-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/03\/sars-cov-2-surveillance-in-decedents-in-a-large-urban-medical-examiners-office\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance in Decedents in a Large Urban Medical Examiner\u2019s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] The 7-day average percentage of SARS-CoV-2 test positivity among people who had died and were identified as possible recent COVID-19 cases and were posthumously tested (n=237) closely matched the trajectory of percent positivity in the catchment population, according to the Wayne County Medical Examiner&#8217;s office in Michigan.<\/li>\n<li>SARS-CoV-2 positive flagged decedents were more likely to be Black compared to a random sample of known positive decedents (89% vs 51%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Brouwer et al. (Aug 7, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 Surveillance in Decedents in a Large Urban Medical Examiner\u2019s Office. Pre-print downloaded Sep 3 from <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.03.20162883\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.03.20162883<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] The 7-day average percentage of SARS-CoV-2 test positivity among people who had died and were identified as possible recent COVID-19 cases and were posthumously tested (n=237) closely matched the trajectory of percent positivity in the catchment population, according to the Wayne County Medical Examiner&#8217;s office in Michigan. SARS-CoV-2 positive flagged decedents&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/03\/sars-cov-2-surveillance-in-decedents-in-a-large-urban-medical-examiners-office\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}