{"id":7540,"date":"2020-06-15T14:56:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T21:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2021-03-25T14:57:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:57:31","slug":"persistent-viral-rna-shedding-after-covid%e2%80%9019-symptom-resolution-in-older-convalescent-plasma-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/15\/persistent-viral-rna-shedding-after-covid%e2%80%9019-symptom-resolution-in-older-convalescent-plasma-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistent Viral RNA Shedding after COVID\u201019 Symptom Resolution in Older Convalescent Plasma Donors"},"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\">Hartman et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0re-tested 86 patients within 28 days after self-reported symptom resolution\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to investigate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">clearance<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. They found persistent viral shedding\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">11\/86 (13%) participants at a median of 19 days (range 12-24 days) after symptom resolution. Participants with persistent shedding were significantly older (mean<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0age<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a054 years vs. 42<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0years<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and older people were more likely to have<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0higher viral concentrations<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\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\">These results\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">may have implications for<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">convalescent plasma donors<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, who may return to clinical facilities<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">within 28 days after symptom resolution<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0if viral shedding indicat<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">es<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0infectiousness<\/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\">Hartman et al. (June 13, 2020). Persistent Viral RNA Shedding after COVID\u201019 Symptom Resolution in Older Convalescent Plasma Donors. Transfusion.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/trf.15927\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/trf.15927<\/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>Hartman et al.\u00a0re-tested 86 patients within 28 days after self-reported symptom resolution\u00a0to investigate\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0clearance. They found persistent viral shedding\u00a0in\u00a011\/86 (13%) participants at a median of 19 days (range 12-24 days) after symptom resolution. Participants with persistent shedding were significantly older (mean\u00a0age\u00a054 years vs. 42\u00a0years)\u00a0and older people were more likely to have\u00a0higher viral concentrations.\u00a0\u00a0 These results\u00a0may have&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/15\/persistent-viral-rna-shedding-after-covid%e2%80%9019-symptom-resolution-in-older-convalescent-plasma-donors\/\">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-7540","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\/7540","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=7540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7541,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7540\/revisions\/7541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7540"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}