{"id":4192,"date":"2020-02-11T15:25:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T23:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4192"},"modified":"2021-02-19T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:17:38","slug":"transmission-of-2019-ncov-infection-from-an-asymptomatic-contact-in-germany-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/11\/transmission-of-2019-ncov-infection-from-an-asymptomatic-contact-in-germany-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission of 2019-nCoV infection from an asymptomatic contact in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rothe, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">et al<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. have provided supplementary information regarding their NEJM Correspondence from 31 January, 2020 that reported asymptomatic transmission between a Chinese business traveler and colleagues in Germany. This supplement follows news reports that Bavarian officials found the index case to be potentially symptomatic during her time in Germany. The supplement provides new detail on the Chinese index case\u2019s symptom timeline, based on a 5 February, 2020 interview with the case.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The index patient from China visited Germany and attended business meeting from 19-22 January, 2020. Per the original paper, \u201cDuring her stay, she had been well with no signs or symptoms of infection but had become ill on her flight back to China\u2026\u201d The added information includes, among other updates, that:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Around midnight on 20 January, after awakening feeling \u201cwarm\u201d but not \u201cfebrile,\u201d the index case took an acetaminophen-containing medication\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Around 3 pm on 21 January, she felt fatigue \u2013 which she attributed to jet lag \u2013 and \u201c\u2026noticed \u2026minor pain \u2018in some muscles and the bones of her chest\u2019 when [touching] trigger points\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After her arrival in Shanghai, on 23 January, was the first time she reported feeling sick.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roth, et al. make no further comment on the original paper, supplying only the added timeline.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supplement to: Rothe C, Schunk M, Sothmann P, et al. Transmission of 2019-nCoV infection from an asymptomatic contact in Germany. N Engl J Med. Available from: <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/suppl\/10.1056\/NEJMc2001468\/suppl_file\/nejmc2001468_appendix.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/suppl\/10.1056\/NEJMc2001468\/suppl_file\/nejmc2001468_appendix.pdf<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rothe, et al. have provided supplementary information regarding their NEJM Correspondence from 31 January, 2020 that reported asymptomatic transmission between a Chinese business traveler and colleagues in Germany. This supplement follows news reports that Bavarian officials found the index case to be potentially symptomatic during her time in Germany. The supplement provides new detail on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/11\/transmission-of-2019-ncov-infection-from-an-asymptomatic-contact-in-germany-2\/\">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-4192","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\/4192","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=4192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4192\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4192"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}