{"id":3840,"date":"2023-06-13T22:17:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T03:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=3840"},"modified":"2023-06-14T06:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T11:22:47","slug":"acute-covid-19-might-cause-false-positive-hiv-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/06\/13\/acute-covid-19-might-cause-false-positive-hiv-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"Acute COVID-19 Might Cause False-Positive HIV Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwatch.org\/na56218\/2023\/06\/13\/acute-covid-19-might-cause-false-positive-hiv-screens\">NEJM<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Michigan, COVID-19 brought a wave of erroneous HIV test results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serologic screening tests are fast and inexpensive, but their accuracy can be compromised by a range of unpredictable circumstances. Several years ago, Michigan physicians noted a surge in false-positive HIV screening tests, just as the COVID-19 epidemic also was surging. A retrospective chart review confirms their suspicion that the two trends were related.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between March 2020 and January 2022, \u224832,000 patients at a single Detroit hospital were screened for HIV with state-of-the-art, fourth-generation antigen\/antibody tests within 2 weeks of being tested for COVID-19. All told, 335 of these people screened positive for HIV. Among those with PCR-confirmed COVID-19, almost half of positive HIV screens (47%) proved to be false positives, with negative follow-up diagnostics. In contrast, 23% of positive screens among those without COVID-19 were false positives. No demographic variables accounted for the disparity nor did pregnancy or COVID-19 vaccination status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jwatch.org\/na56218\/2023\/06\/13\/acute-covid-19-might-cause-false-positive-hiv-screens\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEJM In Michigan, COVID-19 brought a wave of erroneous HIV test results. Serologic screening tests are fast and inexpensive, but their accuracy can be compromised by a range of unpredictable circumstances. Several years ago, Michigan physicians noted a surge in false-positive HIV screening tests, just as the COVID-19 epidemic also was surging. A retrospective chart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3841,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3840\/revisions\/3841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}