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. 2023 Oct 5;10(10):ofad499. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad499

Table 1.

Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 RNA in Blood Donors Reporting Postdonation Symptoms or a Positive Test During the First Pandemic Wave and Delta and Omicron Variant Waves

Symptom Onset (Days After Donation) Wild-Type SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant Omicron Variant
Same day 0/26 1/15 (6.7%) 2/17 (11.8%)
1 d 0/39 5/27 (14.8%) 5/38 (13.2%)
2 d 0/64 4/35 (11.4%) 1a/40 (2.5%)
3 d 0/32 0/16 0/33
4 d 0/23 0/21 1/18 (5.6%)
≥5 d 0/31 1a/27 (3.7%) 0/16
Total 0/215 10/141 (7.1%) 9/161 (5.6%)

Abbreviation: SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

aDonor asymptomatic at time of reporting postdonation information and test positivity used instead of symptom onset postdonation.