{"id":5001,"date":"2020-03-12T15:30:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T22:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2021-02-24T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T23:31:52","slug":"first-known-person-to-person-transmission-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/12\/first-known-person-to-person-transmission-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"First known person-to-person transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article describes the epidemiologic investigation and contact tracing that was conducted on this first person-to-person transmission in the U.S. that occurred between two people with prolonged, unprotected exposure while the index patient (travel-associated case) was symptomatic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The authors note that despite actively monitoring almost 350 contacts and the 75 contacts who further developed COVID-19 symptoms during the 14-day incubation period, all of them tested negative for COVID-19.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Further detailed reports of contact investigations could improve understanding of the transmissibility of this novel virus.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ghinai et al. (Mar 12, 2020). First known person-to-person transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the USA. The Lancet. <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)30607-3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S0140-6736(20)30607-3<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article describes the epidemiologic investigation and contact tracing that was conducted on this first person-to-person transmission in the U.S. that occurred between two people with prolonged, unprotected exposure while the index patient (travel-associated case) was symptomatic. The authors note that despite actively monitoring almost 350 contacts and the 75 contacts who further developed COVID-19&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/12\/first-known-person-to-person-transmission-of-severe-acute-respiratory-syndrome-coronavirus-2-sars-cov-2-in-the-usa\/\">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-5001","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\/5001","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=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}