{"id":9830,"date":"2021-05-17T10:10:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:11:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T17:11:08","slug":"seven-day-covid-19-quarantine-may-be-too-short-assessing-post-quarantine-transmission-risk-in-four-university-cohorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/17\/seven-day-covid-19-quarantine-may-be-too-short-assessing-post-quarantine-transmission-risk-in-four-university-cohorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven-Day COVID-19 Quarantine May Be Too Short Assessing Post-Quarantine Transmission Risk in Four University Cohorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A cohort study conducted at four US universities between September 2020 and February 2021 found that a seven-day quarantine period may not be sufficient to maintain a 5% transmission risk threshold, and that risk depends on the strictness of quarantine measures. The study compared \u201cstrict quarantine\u201d, which included designated housing with private rooms and meal delivery, versus \u201cnon-strict quarantine\u201d, which allowed individuals to interact with other household members. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among 418 individuals who were quarantined and who eventually tested positive, 11%, 4.2%, and 1.2% were negative and asymptomatic on days 7, 10 and 14, respectively. 6% of individuals tested positive after day 7 in strict quarantine, versus 14% in non-strict quarantine, which may have been explained by exposure during the quarantine period.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Liu et al.\u00a0(May 15, 2021). Seven-Day COVID-19 Quarantine May Be Too Short Assessing Post-Quarantine Transmission Risk in Four University Cohorts. Pre-print downloaded May 17 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.12.21257117\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.05.12.21257117<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A cohort study conducted at four US universities between September 2020 and February 2021 found that a seven-day quarantine period may not be sufficient to maintain a 5% transmission risk threshold, and that risk depends on the strictness of quarantine measures. The study compared \u201cstrict quarantine\u201d, which included designated housing with private&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/17\/seven-day-covid-19-quarantine-may-be-too-short-assessing-post-quarantine-transmission-risk-in-four-university-cohorts\/\">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":[203,27],"topic":[19],"class_list":["post-9830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-college","tag-testing","topic-testing-and-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830","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=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9831,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions\/9831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}