{"id":7367,"date":"2020-06-05T15:25:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T22:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7367"},"modified":"2021-03-24T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:26:19","slug":"pre-procedural-surveillance-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-an-asymptomatic-population-in-the-seattle-region-shows-low-rates-of-positivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/05\/pre-procedural-surveillance-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-an-asymptomatic-population-in-the-seattle-region-shows-low-rates-of-positivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Procedural Surveillance Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in an Asymptomatic Population in the Seattle Region Shows Low Rates of Positivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Universal screening of patients\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">prior to admission or a surgical or aerosol-generating procedure<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in the University of Washington hospital system<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was instituted on\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">April 13, 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Since that time<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">10% of patients with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">symptoms were SARS-CoV-2 positive<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0compared to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">fewer<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0than 1% of asymptomatic 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\">Mays et al. (June 3, 2020). Pre-Procedural Surveillance Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in an Asymptomatic Population in the Seattle Region Shows Low Rates of Positivity. Journal of Clinical Microbiology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/JCM.01193-20\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1128\/JCM.01193-20<\/span><\/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>Universal screening of patients\u00a0prior to admission or a surgical or aerosol-generating procedure\u00a0in the University of Washington hospital system\u00a0was instituted on\u00a0April 13, 2020. Since that time,\u00a010% of patients with\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0symptoms were SARS-CoV-2 positive\u00a0compared to\u00a0fewer\u00a0than 1% of asymptomatic individuals.\u00a0 Mays et al. (June 3, 2020). Pre-Procedural Surveillance Testing for SARS-CoV-2 in an Asymptomatic Population in the Seattle Region&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/05\/pre-procedural-surveillance-testing-for-sars-cov-2-in-an-asymptomatic-population-in-the-seattle-region-shows-low-rates-of-positivity\/\">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-7367","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\/7367","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=7367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7367\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7367"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}