{"id":9000,"date":"2020-08-12T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T18:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:15:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:15:37","slug":"viable-sars-cov-2-in-the-air-of-a-hospital-room-with-covid-19-patients-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/12\/viable-sars-cov-2-in-the-air-of-a-hospital-room-with-covid-19-patients-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the Air of a Hospital Room with COVID-19\u00a0Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"4\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lednicky et al. collected air samples\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">containing viable SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">from\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the hospital\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">room\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">two\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">patients with\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19 with respiratory symptoms.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">One patient had been admitted the evening prior to sampling, while the second was in the process of being discharged\u00a0during\u00a0sampling and had previously tested\u00a0negative\u00a0after an earlier positive test.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Viable virus was isolated from air samples collected 2 to 4.8m away from the patients, with estimates of viable viral concentrations ranging from 6 to 74 TCID<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">50<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0units\/L of air.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The room had six air changes per hour with triple filter treatment, coil condensation, and UV-C irradiation of exhaust air prior to recycling 90% back to the room.\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\">Lednicky et al. 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Viable SARS-CoV-2 in the Air of a Hospital Room with COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Patients.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print\u00a0downloaded\u00a0Aug 12 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.03.20167395\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.03.20167395<\/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>[pre-print, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0Lednicky et al. collected air samples\u00a0containing viable SARS-CoV-2\u00a0from\u00a0the hospital\u00a0room\u00a0of\u00a0two\u00a0patients with\u00a0COVID-19 with respiratory symptoms.\u00a0One patient had been admitted the evening prior to sampling, while the second was in the process of being discharged\u00a0during\u00a0sampling and had previously tested\u00a0negative\u00a0after an earlier positive test.\u00a0Viable virus was isolated from air samples collected 2 to 4.8m away from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/12\/viable-sars-cov-2-in-the-air-of-a-hospital-room-with-covid-19-patients-2\/\">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-9000","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\/9000","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=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9001,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions\/9001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}