{"id":9357,"date":"2021-04-22T15:39:43","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T22:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9357"},"modified":"2021-04-23T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:40:26","slug":"airport-traveler-testing-program-for-sars-cov-2-alaska-june-november-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/22\/airport-traveler-testing-program-for-sars-cov-2-alaska-june-november-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport Traveler Testing Program for SARS-CoV-2 \u2014 Alaska, June\u2013November 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">0.8% of passengers arriving to Alaska from June to November 14, 2020 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (951 of 126,000 tests). Passengers tested on arrival made up roughly a third of all air travelers arriving in Alaska during the study period, as other travelers opted to be tested within 72 hours before arrival or to self-quarantine without testing after arrival. Airport testing positivity largely remained &lt;1% and peaked at 2.6% during October to November. Testing on arrival positivity rates were consistently lower than overall state positivity rates.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ohlsen et al.\u00a0(Apr 23, 2021). Airport Traveler Testing Program for SARS-CoV-2 \u2014 Alaska, June\u2013November 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7016a2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7016a2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0.8% of passengers arriving to Alaska from June to November 14, 2020 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (951 of 126,000 tests). Passengers tested on arrival made up roughly a third of all air travelers arriving in Alaska during the study period, as other travelers opted to be tested within 72 hours before arrival or to self-quarantine&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/22\/airport-traveler-testing-program-for-sars-cov-2-alaska-june-november-2020\/\">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":[27,116],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-9357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-testing","tag-travel","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357","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=9357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9358,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9357\/revisions\/9358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9357"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}