{"id":3797,"date":"2021-02-09T18:34:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T02:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3797"},"modified":"2021-02-09T18:34:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T02:34:17","slug":"emergence-of-an-early-sars-cov-2-epidemic-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/09\/emergence-of-an-early-sars-cov-2-epidemic-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergence of an Early SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> Genome sequencing combined with epidemiological and mobility data suggest show that SARS-COV-2 was likely introduced in Louisiana from a single source via domestic travel and was being locally spread prior to the Mardi Gras celebrations in February 2020. However, further evidence suggests that Mardi Gras was likely a superspreading event, based on the unusual lack of genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2, which was similar to cruise ship outbreaks, and the markedly increased infection rate in New Orleans immediately following the event.<\/p>\n<p><i>Zeller et al. (Feb 8, 2021). Emergence of an Early SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic in the United States. Pre-print downloaded Feb 9 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.05.21251235\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.05.21251235<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Genome sequencing combined with epidemiological and mobility data suggest show that SARS-COV-2 was likely introduced in Louisiana from a single source via domestic travel and was being locally spread prior to the Mardi Gras celebrations in February 2020. However, further evidence suggests that Mardi Gras was likely a superspreading event, based on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/09\/emergence-of-an-early-sars-cov-2-epidemic-in-the-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,38],"topic":[24],"class_list":["post-3797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-other-resources","tag-transmission","topic-geographic-spread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3798,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3797\/revisions\/3798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3797"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}