{"id":9351,"date":"2021-04-22T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T22:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9351"},"modified":"2021-04-23T15:38:04","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:38:04","slug":"sars-cov-2-transmission-risk-among-national-basketball-association-players-staff-and-vendors-exposed-to-individuals-with-positive-test-results-after-covid-19-recovery-during-the-2020-regular-and-pos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/22\/sars-cov-2-transmission-risk-among-national-basketball-association-players-staff-and-vendors-exposed-to-individuals-with-positive-test-results-after-covid-19-recovery-during-the-2020-regular-and-pos\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Risk Among National Basketball Association Players, Staff, and Vendors Exposed to Individuals With Positive Test Results After COVID-19 Recovery During the 2020 Regular and Postseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within a cohort of National Basketball Association (NBA) players, staff, and vendors (n=3,648) who maintained a closed environment in Florida from June to October 2020, 36 individuals (1%) had\u00a0 persistently positive PCR results after recovering from SARS-CoV-2 infection. There were no transmission events associated with these persistently positive individuals, who were monitored for an average of 51 days, during which there were at least 1,480 person-days of direct exposure activities in indoor environments without masks. Antibodies were detected in 33 individuals (92%), and all remained asymptomatic following the initial persistent positive PCR result.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mack et al.\u00a0(Apr 22, 2021). SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Risk Among National Basketball Association Players, Staff, and Vendors Exposed to Individuals With Positive Test Results After COVID-19 Recovery During the 2020 Regular and Postseason. JAMA Internal Medicine.<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/2779287\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamainternalmedicine\/fullarticle\/2779287<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within a cohort of National Basketball Association (NBA) players, staff, and vendors (n=3,648) who maintained a closed environment in Florida from June to October 2020, 36 individuals (1%) had\u00a0 persistently positive PCR results after recovering from SARS-CoV-2 infection. There were no transmission events associated with these persistently positive individuals, who were monitored for an average&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/22\/sars-cov-2-transmission-risk-among-national-basketball-association-players-staff-and-vendors-exposed-to-individuals-with-positive-test-results-after-covid-19-recovery-during-the-2020-regular-and-pos\/\">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":[66,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-9351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-sports","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351","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=9351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9352,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9351\/revisions\/9352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9351"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}