{"id":7482,"date":"2020-06-11T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7482"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:24:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:24:58","slug":"longitudinal-surveillance-for-sars-cov-2-rna-among-asymptomatic-staff-in-five-colorado-skilled-nursing-facilities-epidemiologic-virologic-and-sequence-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/longitudinal-surveillance-for-sars-cov-2-rna-among-asymptomatic-staff-in-five-colorado-skilled-nursing-facilities-epidemiologic-virologic-and-sequence-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Longitudinal Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 RNA Among Asymptomatic Staff in Five Colorado Skilled Nursing Facilities Epidemiologic Virologic and Sequence Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Quicke et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0monitored the presence of viral RNA and infectious virus among workers at five skilled nursing facilities in Colorado. They reported that the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">percentage of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nasopharyngeal\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">swabs\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tested positive for viral RNA varied considerably by facility, but\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">there was<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0a general downward trend over the course of the study period.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Levels of viral RNA\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">also\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">tend<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to decline over the duration of infection and correspond<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to low levels of infectious\u00a0virus.\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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A high proportion of asymptomatic infection was observed, suggesting that asymptomatic individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 may contribute to viral transmission within the workplace.<\/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\">Quicke et al. (June 9, 2020). Longitudinal Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 RNA Among Asymptomatic Staff in Five Colorado Skilled Nursing Facilities Epidemiologic Virologic and Sequence Analysis. Pre-print downloaded June 11 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.08.20125989\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.06.08.20125989<\/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>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Quicke et al.\u00a0monitored the presence of viral RNA and infectious virus among workers at five skilled nursing facilities in Colorado. They reported that the\u00a0percentage of\u00a0nasopharyngeal\u00a0swabs\u00a0that\u00a0tested positive for viral RNA varied considerably by facility, but\u00a0there was\u00a0a general downward trend over the course of the study period.\u00a0Levels of viral RNA\u00a0also\u00a0tended\u00a0to decline over the duration&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/11\/longitudinal-surveillance-for-sars-cov-2-rna-among-asymptomatic-staff-in-five-colorado-skilled-nursing-facilities-epidemiologic-virologic-and-sequence-analysis\/\">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-7482","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\/7482","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=7482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7483,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7482\/revisions\/7483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7482"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}