{"id":829,"date":"2020-09-10T09:23:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=829"},"modified":"2020-09-11T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:24:07","slug":"environmental-and-aerosolized-sars-cov-2-among-hospitalized-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/10\/environmental-and-aerosolized-sars-cov-2-among-hospitalized-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental and Aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 Among Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Among more than 400 samples from 20 hospitalized patients with COVID-19, their hospital rooms(fomites and aerosols), and their close ontacts, Binder et al. found low molecular prevalence andlack of viable SARS-CoV-2 virus on fomites and in air samples. The authors conclude that this implieslow nosocomial risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission through inanimate objects or aerosols. Among the human samples, there was 90% positive agreement between nasopharygeal and salivary samples.\n<p><em>Binder et al. (Sept 9, 2020). Environmental and Aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 Among Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. <a href=\"http:\/\/discover.uw.edu\/dy0x0qR8BA0OZ00Q1W300A0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/infdis\/jiaa575<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among more than 400 samples from 20 hospitalized patients with COVID-19, their hospital rooms(fomites and aerosols), and their close ontacts, Binder et al. found low molecular prevalence andlack of viable SARS-CoV-2 virus on fomites and in air samples. The authors conclude that this implieslow nosocomial risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission through inanimate objects or aerosols. Among&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/10\/environmental-and-aerosolized-sars-cov-2-among-hospitalized-covid-19-patients\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}