{"id":8264,"date":"2020-07-16T11:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T18:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8264"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:40:04","slug":"presymptomatic-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-amongst-residents-and-staff-at-a-skilled-nursing-facility-results-of-real-time-pcr-and-serologic-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/16\/presymptomatic-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-amongst-residents-and-staff-at-a-skilled-nursing-facility-results-of-real-time-pcr-and-serologic-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Presymptomatic\u00a0Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Amongst Residents and Staff at a Skilled Nursing Facility: Results of Real-Time PCR and Serologic Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"43\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Universal testing of a skilled nursing facility without a known case of COVID-19 in Massachusetts revealed an 85% prevalence of COVID-19 among residents\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(n=97)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and 37% among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">participating<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0staff<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(n=97) during a serial testing program over approximately one week. The facility had universal\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">masking, temperature checks and symptom screen procedures in place for staff for at least two weeks prior to the testing period.\u00a0<\/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\">Goldberg et al. (July 15, 2020).\u00a0Presymptomatic\u00a0Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Amongst Residents and Staff at a Skilled Nursing Facility: Results of Real-Time PCR and Serologic Testing. Clinical Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa991\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa991<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><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>Universal testing of a skilled nursing facility without a known case of COVID-19 in Massachusetts revealed an 85% prevalence of COVID-19 among residents\u00a0(n=97)\u00a0and 37% among\u00a0participating\u00a0staff\u00a0(n=97) during a serial testing program over approximately one week. The facility had universal\u00a0masking, temperature checks and symptom screen procedures in place for staff for at least two weeks prior to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/16\/presymptomatic-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-amongst-residents-and-staff-at-a-skilled-nursing-facility-results-of-real-time-pcr-and-serologic-testing\/\">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":[19],"class_list":["post-8264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264","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=8264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8264\/revisions\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8264"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}