{"id":7953,"date":"2020-07-06T20:18:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T03:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2021-03-29T20:19:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T03:19:01","slug":"high-proportion-of-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-in-9-long-term-care-facilities-pasadena-california-usa-april-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/06\/high-proportion-of-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-in-9-long-term-care-facilities-pasadena-california-usa-april-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"High Proportion of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections in 9 Long-Term Care Facilities, Pasadena, California, USA, April 2020"},"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 high prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection was identified in long-term care facilities in Pasadena, California.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among 938<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">persons (356 staff and 582 residents) tested for SARS-CoV-2 using\u00a0rRT-PCR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at 9 long-term care facilities, 631 were positive (overall: 67%; staff:\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">6<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%; residents: 70%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">). Staff involved with direct patient care had\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">higher rate of infection than\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">staff who were<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0not (6<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%,150\/219 vs. 48%, 25\/52). Among 631 who tested positive, 257 were asymptomatic (overall 4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%; staff: 2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">5<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%; residents:\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">50<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%). Female residents had a higher rate of asymptomatic infection than male residents (51%, 121\/237 vs. 47%, 81\/171).<\/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\">Feaster and Goh. (July 2, 2020). High Proportion of Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections in 9 Long-Term Care Facilities, Pasadena, California, USA, April 2020. Emerging Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2610.202694\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2610.202694<\/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>A high prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection was identified in long-term care facilities in Pasadena, California.\u00a0Among 938\u00a0persons (356 staff and 582 residents) tested for SARS-CoV-2 using\u00a0rRT-PCR\u00a0at 9 long-term care facilities, 631 were positive (overall: 67%; staff:\u00a063%; residents: 70%). Staff involved with direct patient care had\u00a0a\u00a0higher rate of infection than\u00a0staff who were\u00a0not (69%,150\/219 vs. 48%, 25\/52). Among&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/06\/high-proportion-of-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-in-9-long-term-care-facilities-pasadena-california-usa-april-2020\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","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=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7954,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions\/7954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}