{"id":4121,"date":"2020-02-07T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T22:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T22:24:07","slug":"persons-evaluated-for-2019-novel-coronavirus-united-states-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/07\/persons-evaluated-for-2019-novel-coronavirus-united-states-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Persons Evaluated for 2019 Novel Coronavirus \u2014 United States, January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CDC compiled information from ~650 state reports and inquiries regarding persons under investigation (PUI) for 2019-nCov through Jan 31. Clinical characteristics, epidemiologic risk classification, setting where patient was identified, and testing results are presented.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the 210 people tested, 11 (5%) tested positive for 2019-nCoV and 9 of these had travel history to Wuhan. The remaining two patients had not travelled but were in close contact with laboratory-confirmed cases. All experienced fever and cough.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CDC recommends that clinicians remain aware of person-to-person transmission from infected travelers to close contacts without travel history.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bajema et al. (Feb 7, 2020). Persons Evaluated for 2019 Novel Coronavirus \u2014 United States, January 2020. MMWR Early Release. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6906e1external icon<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CDC compiled information from ~650 state reports and inquiries regarding persons under investigation (PUI) for 2019-nCov through Jan 31. Clinical characteristics, epidemiologic risk classification, setting where patient was identified, and testing results are presented.\u00a0 Of the 210 people tested, 11 (5%) tested positive for 2019-nCoV and 9 of these had travel history to Wuhan. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/07\/persons-evaluated-for-2019-novel-coronavirus-united-states-january-2020\/\">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":[20],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","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=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}