{"id":8769,"date":"2020-08-06T11:32:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T18:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2021-04-06T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T18:33:17","slug":"prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-antibodies-in-health-care-personnel-in-the-new-york-city-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-antibodies-in-health-care-personnel-in-the-new-york-city-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Health Care Personnel in the New York City Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">46,117<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0healthcare workers\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at a large New York State\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">health system\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">who underwent SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">13.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">7% were seropositive.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">In a multivariate analysis,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">high self-reported suspicion of virus exposure was associated with seropositivity (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RR<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">=<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1.2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a095%CI\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">-1.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/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<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Seropositivity was significantly lower among healthcare workers with no previous RT-PCR test res<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ult (9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%, 3077\/34251), compared to those with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">prior RT-PCR test (34%, 2186\/6078).\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among individuals with a prior\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">positive\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">RT-PCR test result,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">9<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">4<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(2044\/2186)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were also seropositive<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Among individuals with a prior negative RT-PCR test result,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">90<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% (3490\/3892) were also seronegative.\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\">Moscola\u00a0et al. (Aug 6, 2020). Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies in Health Care Personnel in the New York City Area. JAMA<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.14765\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.14765<\/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>Among\u00a046,117\u00a0healthcare workers\u00a0at a large New York State\u00a0health system\u00a0who underwent SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing,\u00a013.7% were seropositive.\u00a0In a multivariate analysis,\u00a0high self-reported suspicion of virus exposure was associated with seropositivity (RR=1.2,\u00a095%CI\u00a01.2-1.3).\u00a0 Seropositivity was significantly lower among healthcare workers with no previous RT-PCR test result (9%, 3077\/34251), compared to those with\u00a0a\u00a0prior RT-PCR test (34%, 2186\/6078).\u00a0Among individuals with a prior\u00a0positive\u00a0RT-PCR test&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/06\/prevalence-of-sars-cov-2-antibodies-in-health-care-personnel-in-the-new-york-city-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":[20],"class_list":["post-8769","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\/8769","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=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8770,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}