{"id":7770,"date":"2020-06-24T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:42:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:42:59","slug":"using-influenza-surveillance-networks-to-estimate-state-specific-prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/using-influenza-surveillance-networks-to-estimate-state-specific-prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Influenza Surveillance Networks to Estimate State-Specific Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Silverman\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">et<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">al<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0use outpatient surveillance data for<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0influenza-like illness to estimate the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">US. Assuming\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that one third<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of all people infected with SARS-CoV-2 sought care, the authors estimated that a surge of influenza-like illness corresponded to over 8.7 million new SARS-CoV-2 infections across the US between March 8-28, 2020<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which is substantially more\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">than the number of infections that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were detected<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0The authors also estimated that the early US epidemic doubled in size at least every 4 days, and that over 80%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">cases were undetected.<\/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\">Silverman et al. (June 22, 2020). Using Influenza Surveillance Networks to Estimate State-Specific Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States. Science Translational Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.abc1126\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1126\/scitranslmed.abc1126<\/span><\/a><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>Silverman\u00a0et.\u00a0al\u00a0use outpatient surveillance data for\u00a0influenza-like illness to estimate the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in\u00a0the\u00a0US. Assuming\u00a0that one third\u00a0of all people infected with SARS-CoV-2 sought care, the authors estimated that a surge of influenza-like illness corresponded to over 8.7 million new SARS-CoV-2 infections across the US between March 8-28, 2020, which is substantially more\u00a0than the number of infections&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/using-influenza-surveillance-networks-to-estimate-state-specific-prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-in-the-united-states\/\">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-7770","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\/7770","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=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7771,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions\/7771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}