{"id":9640,"date":"2021-05-06T17:02:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T00:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9640"},"modified":"2021-05-07T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T00:03:15","slug":"asymptomatic-and-symptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-after-bnt162b2-vaccination-in-a-routinely-screened-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/06\/asymptomatic-and-symptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-after-bnt162b2-vaccination-in-a-routinely-screened-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Asymptomatic and Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections After BNT162b2 Vaccination in a Routinely Screened Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was associated with a 72% lower incidence of a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR result during routine weekly screening for asymptomatic infection among employees of St. Jude Children&#8217;s Research Hospital between December 2020 to March 2021 and a greater than 90% reduction in PCR positivity among fully vaccinated individuals. Incidence of asymptomatic infection during screening was 42% lower among vaccinated individuals compared to unvaccinated individuals within the first 11 days after the first dose, 65% lower within the first 7 days after the second dose, and 90% lower 7 days or more after the second the dose. No symptomatic infections were detected among vaccinated individuals more than 7 days after the second dose.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tang et al.\u00a0(May 6, 2021). Asymptomatic and Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections After BNT162b2 Vaccination in a Routinely Screened Workforce. JAMA. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2779854\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2779854<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was associated with a 72% lower incidence of a positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR result during routine weekly screening for asymptomatic infection among employees of St. Jude Children&#8217;s Research Hospital between December 2020 to March 2021 and a greater than 90% reduction in PCR positivity among fully vaccinated individuals. Incidence of asymptomatic&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/06\/asymptomatic-and-symptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-after-bnt162b2-vaccination-in-a-routinely-screened-workforce\/\">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":[33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640","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=9640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9641,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions\/9641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9640"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}