{"id":7363,"date":"2020-06-05T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T22:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2021-03-24T15:24:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:24:28","slug":"the-natural-history-and-transmission-potential-of-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/05\/the-natural-history-and-transmission-potential-of-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Natural History and Transmission Potential of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among 30\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">quarantined people with RT-PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">early half (43%)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">asymptomatic and asymptomatic individuals were less likely to test positive in follow-up tests<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0than those with symptoms of COVID-19, indicating faster viral clearance.\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<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Chau et al. (June 4, 2020). The Natural History and Transmission Potential of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa711\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa711<\/span><\/i><\/a><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>Among 30\u00a0quarantined people with RT-PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, nearly half (43%)\u00a0were\u00a0asymptomatic and asymptomatic individuals were less likely to test positive in follow-up tests\u00a0than those with symptoms of COVID-19, indicating faster viral clearance.\u00a0\u00a0 Chau et al. (June 4, 2020). The Natural History and Transmission Potential of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa711\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/05\/the-natural-history-and-transmission-potential-of-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infection\/\">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-7363","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\/7363","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=7363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7364,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions\/7364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7363"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}