{"id":8523,"date":"2020-07-28T10:39:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T17:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8523"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:40:07","slug":"prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-among-asymptomatic-health-care-workers-in-the-greater-houston-texas-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/28\/prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-among-asymptomatic-health-care-workers-in-the-greater-houston-texas-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Asymptomatic Health Care Workers in\u00a0the Greater\u00a0Houston, Texas, Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"49\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A surveillance program among asymptomatic clinical and nonclinical workers at Houston Methodist (an academic medical center with 7 community hospitals), and expanded to asymptomatic community residents, found that out of 2,872 participants (March 11 to April 19) 4% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0by RT-PCR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, with\u00a0all of\u00a0the positive results being in clinical healthcare workers. Among clinical healthcare workers, prevalence was 5% (95% CI 4.5-6.5%) among those from COVID-19 units versus 0.6% (95% CI 0.2-1.7%) from non-COVID units.\u00a0<\/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\">Vahidy\u00a0et al. (July 2020). Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Asymptomatic Health Care Workers in\u00a0the Greater\u00a0Houston, Texas, Area. JAMA Network Open.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.16451\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.16451<\/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>A surveillance program among asymptomatic clinical and nonclinical workers at Houston Methodist (an academic medical center with 7 community hospitals), and expanded to asymptomatic community residents, found that out of 2,872 participants (March 11 to April 19) 4% tested positive for SARS-CoV-2\u00a0by RT-PCR, with\u00a0all of\u00a0the positive results being in clinical healthcare workers. Among clinical healthcare&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/28\/prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-infection-among-asymptomatic-health-care-workers-in-the-greater-houston-texas-area\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-8523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523","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=8523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8524,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8523\/revisions\/8524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8523"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}