{"id":7327,"date":"2020-06-04T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7327"},"modified":"2021-03-24T13:21:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:21:59","slug":"seroprevalence-of-sars-cov-2-in-hong-kong-and-in-residents-evacuated-from-hubei-province-china-a-multicohort-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/04\/seroprevalence-of-sars-cov-2-in-hong-kong-and-in-residents-evacuated-from-hubei-province-china-a-multicohort-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Hong Kong and in Residents Evacuated from Hubei Province, China: A Multicohort Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Kai-Wang<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">conducted a\u00a0seroepidemiology\u00a0investigation using<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0enzyme immunoassay and microneutralization assay<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0on stored samples from before and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They conclude that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2 was not circulating in the Hong Kong populati<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">on before the COVID-19 pandemic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">there was no increase in the seroprevalence from 2018 up until the second month of the COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong.<\/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=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among Hong Kong returnees evacuated from Hubei province in\u00a0March,\u00a02020, the SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity was 4%, indicating\u00a0a large number of\u00a0cases of subclinical COVID-19 that were not detected during the epidemic period in Hubei.<\/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\">Kai-Wang et al. (June 3, 2020). Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Hong Kong and in Residents Evacuated from Hubei Province, China: A Multicohort Study. The Lancet Microbe. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2666-5247(20)30053-7\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S2666-5247(20)30053-7<\/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>Kai-Wang\u00a0et al.\u00a0conducted a\u00a0seroepidemiology\u00a0investigation using\u00a0enzyme immunoassay and microneutralization assay\u00a0on stored samples from before and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0They conclude that\u00a0SARS-CoV-2 was not circulating in the Hong Kong population before the COVID-19 pandemic\u00a0and\u00a0that\u00a0there was no increase in the seroprevalence from 2018 up until the second month of the COVID-19 outbreak in Hong Kong.\u00a0 Among&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/04\/seroprevalence-of-sars-cov-2-in-hong-kong-and-in-residents-evacuated-from-hubei-province-china-a-multicohort-study\/\">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-7327","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\/7327","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=7327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7328,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions\/7328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}