{"id":7774,"date":"2020-06-24T12:44:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7774"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T19:44:46","slug":"persistent-positivity-and-fluctuations-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-clinically-recovered-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/persistent-positivity-and-fluctuations-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-clinically-recovered-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistent Positivity and Fluctuations of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in\u00a0Clinically-Recovered\u00a0COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cento et al. found that 47% (235\/501) of hospitalized COVID-19 patients still tested positive at symptom resolution. Among patients who\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were discharged<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 14% (976\/7127) still tested positive 14<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">days after hospital discharge. In addition, among patients who\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were retested<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0following their first negative RT-PCR test result,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% (196\/264) tested positive again within the first month of discharge.<\/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\">Cento et al. (June 11, 2020). Persistent Positivity and Fluctuations of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Clinically-Recovered<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0COVID-19 Patients. Journal of Infection.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jinf.2020.06.024\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jinf.2020.06.024<\/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>Cento et al. found that 47% (235\/501) of hospitalized COVID-19 patients still tested positive at symptom resolution. Among patients who\u00a0were discharged, 14% (976\/7127) still tested positive 14&#8211;days after hospital discharge. In addition, among patients who\u00a0were retested\u00a0following their first negative RT-PCR test result,\u00a091% (196\/264) tested positive again within the first month of discharge.\u00a0 Cento et al&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/06\/24\/persistent-positivity-and-fluctuations-of-sars-cov-2-rna-in-clinically-recovered-covid-19-patients\/\">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-7774","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\/7774","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=7774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7775,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7774\/revisions\/7775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7774"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}