{"id":4059,"date":"2020-02-06T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T00:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:19:26","slug":"evidence-and-characteristics-of-human-to-human-transmission-of-2019-ncov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/06\/evidence-and-characteristics-of-human-to-human-transmission-of-2019-ncov\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence and characteristics of human-to-human transmission of 2019-nCoV"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Based on a review of 188 confirmed cases from Guangdong Province (China), Kang, et al. describe characteristics of human-to-human transmission.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Average age was 49 years; half male. 158 cases (84%) had traveled to Hubei Province within 14 days of onset. Average duration of symptom onset to diagnosis was 5.4 days.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">31 clusters accounting for 84 cases (45%). Among the 31 clusters, 13 were in families [not necessarily in same household], and these families accounted for 37 cases. Detailed descriptions of five family clusters are provided.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of 30 secondary cases (16%), nine occurred in five of the 13 family clusters. In these five, the secondary cases shared a household with at least one family member in that cluster. It appeared that cases among family members with no travel history occurred 2-7 days after the onset date of the family member who traveled.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kang, et al. (Feb 5, 2020). Evidence and characteristics of human-to-human transmission of 2019-nCoV. Pre-Print downloaded on 6 Feb, 2020 from, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.02.03.20019141v2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2020.02.03.20019141v2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a review of 188 confirmed cases from Guangdong Province (China), Kang, et al. describe characteristics of human-to-human transmission.\u00a0 Average age was 49 years; half male. 158 cases (84%) had traveled to Hubei Province within 14 days of onset. Average duration of symptom onset to diagnosis was 5.4 days. 31 clusters accounting for 84&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/06\/evidence-and-characteristics-of-human-to-human-transmission-of-2019-ncov\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}