Risk Assessment and Prevention of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Transmission for Hospitalized Urological Patients After the COVID-19 Pandemic in Wuhan, China

World Health Organization Shen, 2020, Characteristics and diagnosis rate of 5630 subjects receiving SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid tests from Wuhan, China, JCI Insight, 5, 10.1172/jci.insight.137662 Liu, 2020, Positive rate of RT-PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2 infection in 4880 cases from one hospital in Wuhan, China, from Jan to Feb 2020, Clin Chim Acta, 505, 172, 10.1016/j.cca.2020.03.009 Pan, 2020, Potential false-negative nucleic acid testing results for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 from thermal inactivation of samples with low viral loads, Clin Chem, 66, 794, 10.1093/clinchem/hvaa091 Hu, 2020, Clinical characteristics of 24 asymptomatic infections with COVID-19 screened among close contacts in Nanjing, China. Sci China Life Sci, 63, 706, 10.1007/s11427-020-1661-4 Mizumoto, 2020, Estimating the asymptomatic proportion of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, Yokohama, Japan, 2020, Euro Surveill, 25, 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.10.2000180 Peng, 2020, Seven discharged patients turning positive again for SARS-CoV-2 on quantitative RT-PCR, Am J Infect Control, 48, 725, 10.1016/j.ajic.2020.03.017 Yao, 2020, Pathological evidence for residual SARS-CoV-2 in pulmonary tissues of a ready-for-discharge patient, Cell Res, 30, 541, 10.1038/s41422-020-0318-5 Corman, 2020, Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) by real-time RT-PCR, Euro Surveill, 25, 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.3.2000045 World Health Organization. Laboratory testing for 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in suspected human cases. www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200227-sitrep-38-COVID-19.pdf?sfvrsn=9f98940c_2. Wang, 2020, A novel coronavirus outbreak of global health concern, Lancet, 395, 470, 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30185-9 Luciani L.G., Mattevi D., Giusti G., et al. Guess who’s coming to dinner: COVID-19 in a COVID-free unit. Urology. In press. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2020.05.011. Proietti S., Gaboardi F., Giusti G. Endourological Stone Management in the Era of the COVID-19. Eur Urol In press. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2020.03.042. Nathaniel, 2007, A 15-year longitudinal analysis of trends in elective urological surgery—an evidence base for modernising medical careers, Ann R Coll Surg Engl, 89, 157, 10.1308/003588407X168226 Fang, 2020, Sensitivity of chest CT for COVID-19: comparison to RT-PCR, Radiology, 10.1148/radiol.2020200432 Ai, 2020, Correlation of chest CT and RT-PCR testing in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China: a report of 1014 cases, Radiology, 10.1148/radiol.2020200642 Xiang F., Wang X., He X., et al. Antibody detection and dynamic characteristics in patients with COVID-19. Clin Infect Dis. In press. http://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa461. Zhao J., Yuan Q., Wang H., et al. Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in patients of novel coronavirus disease 2019. Clin Infect Dis. In press. http://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa344. Qu J., Wu C., Li X., et al. Profile of IgG and IgM antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Clin Infect Dis. In press. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa489. Zhang, 2020, Longitudinal change of SARS-Cov2 antibodies in patients with COVID-19, J Infect Dis, 222, 183, 10.1093/infdis/jiaa229 Long, 2020, Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in patients with COVID-19, Nat Med, 26, 845, 10.1038/s41591-020-0897-1 Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation. Perioperative considerations for the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19). https://www.apsf.org/news-updates/perioperative-considerations-for-the-2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/. American Society of Anesthesiologists. COVID FAQs: clinical care. www.asahq.org/about-asa/governance-and-committees/asa-committees/committee-on-occupational-health/coronavirus/clinical-faqs. Steward, 2020, Urologic surgery and COVID-19: how the pandemic is changing the way we operate, J Endourol, 34, 541, 10.1089/end.2020.0342 Lie, 2020, Practical considerations for performing regional anesthesia: lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, Can J Anaesth, 67, 885, 10.1007/s12630-020-01637-0 Wolfel, 2020, Virological assessment of hospitalized patients with COVID-2019, Nature, 581, 465, 10.1038/s41586-020-2196-x Yu F., Yan L., Wang N., et al. Quantitative detection and viral load analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in infected patients. Clin Infect Dis. In press. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa345. Ling, 2020, Persistence and clearance of viral RNA in 2019 novel coronavirus disease rehabilitation patients, Chin Med J (Engl), 133, 1039, 10.1097/CM9.0000000000000774 Luciani, 2020, Teleurology in the time of Covid-19 pandemic: here to stay?, Urology, 140, 4, 10.1016/j.urology.2020.04.004