{"id":4856,"date":"2020-03-05T14:47:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2021-02-23T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T22:48:10","slug":"epidemiology-and-transmission-of-covid-19-in-shenzhen-china-analysis-of-391-cases-and-1286-of-their-close-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/05\/epidemiology-and-transmission-of-covid-19-in-shenzhen-china-analysis-of-391-cases-and-1286-of-their-close-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidemiology and Transmission of COVID-19 in Shenzhen China: Analysis of 391 cases and 1,286 of their close contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This report summarizes the epidemiology of 391 COVID-19 patients in Shenzhen China and 1,286 close contacts. Rather than reporting on cases identified through symptom surveillance, this study offers a better estimation of how COVID-19 looks more broadly in the population by relying on contact tracing.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to clinical details, findings indicate that household contacts and those travelling with known cases were at 6 and 7 times greater risk of infection, respectively, compared to those who were not household contact and not co-travelers. Children were found to be at similar risk of infection but not of severe illness.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bi et al. (Mar 4, 2020). Epidemiology and Transmission of COVID-19 in Shenzhen China: Analysis of 391 cases and 1,286 of their close contacts. Pre-print downloaded Mar 5 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.03.20028423\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.03.20028423<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report summarizes the epidemiology of 391 COVID-19 patients in Shenzhen China and 1,286 close contacts. Rather than reporting on cases identified through symptom surveillance, this study offers a better estimation of how COVID-19 looks more broadly in the population by relying on contact tracing.\u00a0 In addition to clinical details, findings indicate that household contacts&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/05\/epidemiology-and-transmission-of-covid-19-in-shenzhen-china-analysis-of-391-cases-and-1286-of-their-close-contacts\/\">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-4856","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\/4856","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=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4857,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions\/4857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}