{"id":7423,"date":"2021-03-23T13:46:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7423"},"modified":"2021-03-25T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:47:53","slug":"the-prevalence-and-clinical-significance-of-presymptomatic-covid-19-patients-how-we-can-be-one-step-ahead-in-mitigating-a-deadly-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/23\/the-prevalence-and-clinical-significance-of-presymptomatic-covid-19-patients-how-we-can-be-one-step-ahead-in-mitigating-a-deadly-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Presymptomatic COVID-19 Patients: How We Can Be One Step Ahead in Mitigating a Deadly Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Presymptomatic patients were more likely to have atypical symptoms of COVID-19 when compared to symptomatic patients, according to a retrospective study (n=199) of patients identified via contact tracing in Malaysia. In the cohort, 21% of patients were presymptomatic, 27% were mildly symptomatic, and 52% were asymptomatic.\u00a0 Females were more likely to present as presymptomatic than males (p = 0.019). No demographic or clinical characteristics were significantly associated with beings presymptomatic.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tan et al.\u00a0(Mar 9, 2021). The Prevalence and Clinical Significance of Presymptomatic COVID-19 Patients: How We Can Be One Step Ahead in Mitigating a Deadly Pandemic. BMC Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12879-021-05849-7\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12879-021-05849-7<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presymptomatic patients were more likely to have atypical symptoms of COVID-19 when compared to symptomatic patients, according to a retrospective study (n=199) of patients identified via contact tracing in Malaysia. In the cohort, 21% of patients were presymptomatic, 27% were mildly symptomatic, and 52% were asymptomatic.\u00a0 Females were more likely to present as presymptomatic than&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/23\/the-prevalence-and-clinical-significance-of-presymptomatic-covid-19-patients-how-we-can-be-one-step-ahead-in-mitigating-a-deadly-pandemic\/\">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":[34],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-7423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423","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=7423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7424,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7423\/revisions\/7424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7423"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}