{"id":9995,"date":"2021-05-24T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9995"},"modified":"2021-05-25T11:53:59","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:53:59","slug":"impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-chlamydia-and-gonorrhea-screening-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/24\/impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-chlamydia-and-gonorrhea-screening-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chlamydia and gonorrhea testing in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic were at their lowest during April 2020, with decreases of 59% among female and 63% among male patients relative to baseline levels. Declines in testing were strongly associated with increases in weekly positivity rates for chlamydia (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">R<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">=0.96) and gonorrhea (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">R<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">=0.85). The study estimates that between March and June 2020, 27,659 (26%) cases of chlamydia and 5,577 (17%) cases of gonorrhea were potentially missed, based on historical trends.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pinto et al.\u00a0(May 2021). Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening in the U.S. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.amepre.2021.03.009\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.amepre.2021.03.009<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chlamydia and gonorrhea testing in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic were at their lowest during April 2020, with decreases of 59% among female and 63% among male patients relative to baseline levels. Declines in testing were strongly associated with increases in weekly positivity rates for chlamydia (R2=0.96) and gonorrhea (R2=0.85). The study estimates that&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/24\/impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-chlamydia-and-gonorrhea-screening-in-the-u-s\/\">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":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995","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=9995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9996,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions\/9996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}