{"id":8009,"date":"2020-07-07T17:44:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8009"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T00:45:38","slug":"seroprevalence-of-sars-cov-2-among-frontline-healthcare-personnel-during-the-first-month-of-caring-for-covid-19-patients-nashville-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/07\/seroprevalence-of-sars-cov-2-among-frontline-healthcare-personnel-during-the-first-month-of-caring-for-covid-19-patients-nashville-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Among Frontline Healthcare Personnel During the First Month of Caring for COVID-19 Patients \u2014 Nashville, Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Stubblefiled\u00a0et al. conducted a cross-sectional seroprevalence study for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among healthcare workers in Nashville, TN\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0weeks after the first identified case in the study hospital. Among 249 healthcare personnel who worked in units with COVID-19 patients, 19 (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">8<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Only 11 (5<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">8<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%) of the 19 personnel with positive serology reported symptoms of a prior illness, suggesting asymptomatic healthcare personnel could be an important source of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Stubblefield et al. Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Among Frontline Healthcare Personnel During the First Month of Caring for COVID-19 Patients \u2014 Nashville, Tennessee. Clinical Infectious Diseases.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa936\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa936<\/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>Stubblefiled\u00a0et al. conducted a cross-sectional seroprevalence study for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies among healthcare workers in Nashville, TN\u00a04\u00a0weeks after the first identified case in the study hospital. Among 249 healthcare personnel who worked in units with COVID-19 patients, 19 (8%) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Only 11 (58%) of the 19 personnel with positive serology reported symptoms&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/07\/seroprevalence-of-sars-cov-2-among-frontline-healthcare-personnel-during-the-first-month-of-caring-for-covid-19-patients-nashville-tennessee\/\">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-8009","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\/8009","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=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8010,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions\/8010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}