{"id":5672,"date":"2020-04-06T15:37:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5672"},"modified":"2021-03-03T15:38:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:38:30","slug":"cryptic-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-washington-state-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/cryptic-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-washington-state-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bedford et al sequenced 346 SARS-CoV-2 genome from samples collected between February 20 and March 15 in Washington State. The majority of infections appeared to have derived from a single introduction event in late January or early February, suggesting cryptic spread of COVID-19 during the months of January and February.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These findings highlight the critical need for widespread surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 community transmission throughout the U.S. and world, even after the current pandemic is brought under control.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bedford et al. (Apr 6, 2020). Cryptic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Washington State. Pre-print downloaded Apr 6 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.02.20051417\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.04.02.20051417<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bedford et al sequenced 346 SARS-CoV-2 genome from samples collected between February 20 and March 15 in Washington State. The majority of infections appeared to have derived from a single introduction event in late January or early February, suggesting cryptic spread of COVID-19 during the months of January and February.\u00a0 These findings highlight the critical&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/06\/cryptic-transmission-of-sars-cov-2-in-washington-state-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-5672","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\/5672","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=5672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5672\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5672"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}