{"id":8500,"date":"2020-07-27T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:27:56","slug":"comparison-of-viral-levels-in-individuals-with-or-without-symptoms-at-time-of-covid-19-testing-among-32480-residents-and-staff-of-nursing-homes-and-assisted-living-facilities-in-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/27\/comparison-of-viral-levels-in-individuals-with-or-without-symptoms-at-time-of-covid-19-testing-among-32480-residents-and-staff-of-nursing-homes-and-assisted-living-facilities-in-massachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of Viral Levels in Individuals with or without Symptoms at Time of COVID-19 Testing among 32480 Residents and Staff of Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities in Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Based on PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 among nursing home residents (n=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">16,966<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and staff (n=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">15,514<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">with or without symptoms\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Massachusetts\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">April 9 to June 9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">),\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% of residents and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% of staff tested positive.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Of those without symptoms,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% of residents and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% of staff tested positive<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, compared to 53<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% of residents and 18% of staff with symptoms.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There was<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a statistical<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">though not\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">meaningful<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">differe<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nce<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">viral load<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">between\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients with and without symptoms (mean<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0differenc<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">0.71 cycles, p=0.006).<\/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\">Lennon et al. 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Comparison of Viral Levels in Individuals with or without Symptoms at Time of COVID-19 Testing among 32480 Residents and Staff of Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Facilities in Massachusetts.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print downloaded July 27 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.20.20157792\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.07.20.20157792<\/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>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Based on PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 among nursing home residents (n=16,966)\u00a0and staff (n=15,514)\u00a0with or without symptoms\u00a0in Massachusetts\u00a0(April 9 to June 9),\u00a013% of residents and\u00a04% of staff tested positive.\u00a0Of those without symptoms,\u00a013% of residents and\u00a04% of staff tested positive, compared to 53% of residents and 18% of staff with symptoms.\u00a0There was\u00a0a statistical,\u00a0though not\u00a0meaningful,\u00a0difference\u00a0in\u00a0viral&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/27\/comparison-of-viral-levels-in-individuals-with-or-without-symptoms-at-time-of-covid-19-testing-among-32480-residents-and-staff-of-nursing-homes-and-assisted-living-facilities-in-massachusetts\/\">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-8500","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\/8500","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=8500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8501,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions\/8501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8500"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}