{"id":5622,"date":"2020-04-02T15:03:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T22:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5622"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:04:48","slug":"the-first-three-months-of-the-covid-19-epidemic-epidemiological-evidence-for-two-separate-strains-of-sars-cov-2-viruses-spreading-and-implications-for-prevention-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/the-first-three-months-of-the-covid-19-epidemic-epidemiological-evidence-for-two-separate-strains-of-sars-cov-2-viruses-spreading-and-implications-for-prevention-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"The first three months of the COVID-19 epidemic: Epidemiological evidence for two separate strains of SARS-CoV-2 viruses spreading and implications for prevention strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wittkowski summarizes the time-course of COVID-19 by country and region using raw case data, and suggests that different patterns in spread and lethality indicate the presence of at least 2 strains of SARS-CoV-2.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His analysis predicts that US projections of peak prevalence and lethality may depend on which strain arrived first, and that containment of high-risk people and lockdowns during the month following peak incidence of infections are the most effective prevention strategies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wittkowski (March 31, 2020). The first three months of the COVID-19 epidemic: Epidemiological evidence for two separate strains of SARS-CoV-2 viruses spreading and implications for prevention strategies.\u00a0 Pre-print downloaded Apr 1 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.28.20036715\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.28.20036715<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wittkowski summarizes the time-course of COVID-19 by country and region using raw case data, and suggests that different patterns in spread and lethality indicate the presence of at least 2 strains of SARS-CoV-2. His analysis predicts that US projections of peak prevalence and lethality may depend on which strain arrived first, and that containment of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/02\/the-first-three-months-of-the-covid-19-epidemic-epidemiological-evidence-for-two-separate-strains-of-sars-cov-2-viruses-spreading-and-implications-for-prevention-strategies\/\">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-5622","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\/5622","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=5622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5623,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5622\/revisions\/5623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5622"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}