{"id":890,"date":"2020-09-14T17:51:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T00:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=890"},"modified":"2020-09-14T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T00:51:45","slug":"change-in-donor-characteristics-and-antibodies-to-sars-cov-2-in-donated-blood-in-the-us-june-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/14\/change-in-donor-characteristics-and-antibodies-to-sars-cov-2-in-donated-blood-in-the-us-june-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Change in Donor Characteristics and Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in Donated Blood in the US, June-August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Routine testing of blood donated at American Red Cross centers since June 15, 2020 (n=953,926 donations) found that 1.8% of donations tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, with an increase in seropositivity over the study period. Blood from first-time donors was more likely to test positive than blood from repeat donors (3% vs. 1.6%, p&lt;0.001). The likelihood of testing positive was greater among blood from donors aged 18-24 years compared to donors aged 55 years or older (OR=2.4).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dodd et al. (Sept 14, 2020). Change in Donor Characteristics and Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 in Donated Blood in the US, June-August 2020. JAMA. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.18598\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jama.2020.18598<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Routine testing of blood donated at American Red Cross centers since June 15, 2020 (n=953,926 donations) found that 1.8% of donations tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, with an increase in seropositivity over the study period. Blood from first-time donors was more likely to test positive than blood from repeat donors (3% vs. 1.6%, p&lt;0.001). The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/14\/change-in-donor-characteristics-and-antibodies-to-sars-cov-2-in-donated-blood-in-the-us-june-august-2020\/\">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":[34],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","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=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}