{"id":917,"date":"2020-09-15T18:50:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T01:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=917"},"modified":"2020-09-15T18:50:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T01:50:39","slug":"sars-cov-2-seroprevalence-and-asymptomatic-viral-carriage-in-healthcare-workers-a-cross-sectional-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/15\/sars-cov-2-seroprevalence-and-asymptomatic-viral-carriage-in-healthcare-workers-a-cross-sectional-study\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and Asymptomatic Viral Carriage in Healthcare Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A cross-sectional study in April 2020 of asymptomatic healthcare workers (n=545) in the UK found a 2.4% point prevalence of SARS-CoV-2, and 24.4% seroprevalence. Those who reported prior symptomatic illness had higher seroprevalence and greater antibody responses. Healthcare workers who were Black, Asian or minority ethnicity were more likely to be seropositive (OR=1.9), while those who worked in the ICU were less likely to be seropositive (OR=0.3).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shields et al. (Sept 11, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence and Asymptomatic Viral Carriage in Healthcare Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study. Thorax.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/thoraxjnl-2020-215414\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/thoraxjnl-2020-215414<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-sectional study in April 2020 of asymptomatic healthcare workers (n=545) in the UK found a 2.4% point prevalence of SARS-CoV-2, and 24.4% seroprevalence. Those who reported prior symptomatic illness had higher seroprevalence and greater antibody responses. Healthcare workers who were Black, Asian or minority ethnicity were more likely to be seropositive (OR=1.9), while those&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/15\/sars-cov-2-seroprevalence-and-asymptomatic-viral-carriage-in-healthcare-workers-a-cross-sectional-study\/\">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":[55,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-workers","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","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=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}