{"id":7305,"date":"2020-06-03T13:08:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:08:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:08:50","slug":"clearance-and-persistence-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/03\/clearance-and-persistence-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearance and Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Carmo et al. found that most patients\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">continue to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">test positive for SARS-CoV-2 for over two weeks. The minimum time from first positive to first negative SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test result was 7 days, while some patients continued to test positive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">51 days following their first positive test result.\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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Viral RNA persistence was not associated with\u00a0severity\u00a0of\u00a0disease<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0but\u00a0may be associated with a weaker immune response.<\/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\">Carmo et al. (June 2, 2020). Clearance and Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in COVID-19 Patients. Journal of Medical Virology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.26103\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/jmv.26103<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&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>Carmo et al. found that most patients\u00a0continue to\u00a0test positive for SARS-CoV-2 for over two weeks. The minimum time from first positive to first negative SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test result was 7 days, while some patients continued to test positive\u00a0for\u00a051 days following their first positive test result.\u00a0\u00a0 Viral RNA persistence was not associated with\u00a0severity\u00a0of\u00a0disease,\u00a0but\u00a0may be associated with&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/03\/clearance-and-persistence-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-covid-19-patients\/\">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":[19],"class_list":["post-7305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305","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=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7306,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions\/7306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}