September 10, 2020

Community and Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 Among Symptomatic Adults ≥18 Years in 11 Outpatient Health Care Facilities — United States, July 2020

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Topic: Transmission

Keywords (Tags): transmission

• Adults with a positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR test were approximately twice as likely to have reported dining at a restaurant than were those with a negative test in an investigation among outpatients seen at 11 US health care facilities. Close contact with persons with known COVID-19 was also associated with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test.

Fisher et al. (Sept 11, 2020). Community and Close Contact Exposures Associated with COVID-19 Among Symptomatic Adults ≥18 Years in 11 Outpatient Health Care Facilities — United States, July 2020. MMWR. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6936a5