{"id":7972,"date":"2021-03-29T17:21:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7972"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:21:56","slug":"single-dose-of-a-mrna-sars-cov-2-vaccine-is-associated-with-lower-nasopharyngeal-viral-load-among-nursing-home-residents-with-asymptomatic-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/29\/single-dose-of-a-mrna-sars-cov-2-vaccine-is-associated-with-lower-nasopharyngeal-viral-load-among-nursing-home-residents-with-asymptomatic-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Dose of a MRNA SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Is Associated with Lower Nasopharyngeal Viral Load among Nursing Home Residents with Asymptomatic COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among nursing home residents in Pennsylvania with asymptomatic COVID-19 diagnosed through twice-weekly surveillance testing (n=10), residents who received a single dose of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine had significantly lower nasopharyngeal viral load (-2.4 mean log<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0lower) than unvaccinated residents. The authors note their results suggest a single dose may start to reduce transmission among nursing home residents.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McEllistrem et al.\u00a0(Mar 26, 2021). Single Dose of a MRNA SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Is Associated with Lower Nasopharyngeal Viral Load among Nursing Home Residents with Asymptomatic COVID-19. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab263\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab263<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among nursing home residents in Pennsylvania with asymptomatic COVID-19 diagnosed through twice-weekly surveillance testing (n=10), residents who received a single dose of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer-BioNTech) vaccine had significantly lower nasopharyngeal viral load (-2.4 mean log10\u00a0lower) than unvaccinated residents. The authors note their results suggest a single dose may start to reduce transmission among nursing home&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/29\/single-dose-of-a-mrna-sars-cov-2-vaccine-is-associated-with-lower-nasopharyngeal-viral-load-among-nursing-home-residents-with-asymptomatic-covid-19\/\">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":[38,142],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","tag-vaccine","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972","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=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7973,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions\/7973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}