{"id":7447,"date":"2020-06-09T14:02:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:03:17","slug":"persistent-detection-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-patients-and-healthcare-workers-with-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/09\/persistent-detection-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-patients-and-healthcare-workers-with-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistent Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Patients and Healthcare Workers with COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">n<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0observational analysis of 150 patients and health care workers at a US academic medical center revealed that the average time to transition from\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 by\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RT-PCR to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">testing\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">negative was 24 days after symptom onset<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and 10%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of participants\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">remained positive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">33 days after symptom onset.<\/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\">The authors suggest that the CDC guideline of excluding healthcare workers from the workforce and keeping patients on contact precautions until at least 3 days after symptomatic recovery or at least 7 days since initial onset\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">may not be sufficient if extended viral shedding is associated with continued infectiousness<\/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\">Gombar et al. (May 30, 2020). Persistent Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Patients and Healthcare Workers with COVID-19. Journal of Clinical Virology.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jcv.2020.104477\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jcv.2020.104477<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><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>An\u00a0observational analysis of 150 patients and health care workers at a US academic medical center revealed that the average time to transition from\u00a0testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 by\u00a0RT-PCR to\u00a0testing\u00a0negative was 24 days after symptom onset,\u00a0and 10%\u00a0of participants\u00a0remained positive\u00a0at\u00a033 days after symptom onset.\u00a0 The authors suggest that the CDC guideline of excluding healthcare workers from the workforce&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/09\/persistent-detection-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-patients-and-healthcare-workers-with-covid-19\/\">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-7447","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\/7447","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=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7448,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions\/7448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}