{"id":6198,"date":"2020-04-22T15:38:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T22:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6198"},"modified":"2021-03-09T15:39:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T23:39:34","slug":"connecting-clusters-of-covid-19-an-epidemiological-and-serological-investigation-lancet-infectious-disease-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/22\/connecting-clusters-of-covid-19-an-epidemiological-and-serological-investigation-lancet-infectious-disease-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting clusters of COVID-19: an epidemiological and serological investigation. Lancet Infectious disease (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yong et al describe how active case finding and contact tracing were used to identify cases and establish links between three clusters of COVID -19 in Singapore. The investigations used both SARS-CoV-2 serological assays and traditional epidemiological methods to confirm transmission between cases.\u00a0 This study is important to those establishing links among locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and tracing the transmission chain to an imported or initial source.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yong et al. (April 22, 2020). Connecting clusters of COVID-19: an epidemiological and serological investigation. Lancet Infectious disease (2020). Pre-print downloaded Apr 22 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S1473-3099(20)30273-5\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S1473-3099(20)30273-5<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yong et al describe how active case finding and contact tracing were used to identify cases and establish links between three clusters of COVID -19 in Singapore. The investigations used both SARS-CoV-2 serological assays and traditional epidemiological methods to confirm transmission between cases.\u00a0 This study is important to those establishing links among locally transmitted COVID-19&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/04\/22\/connecting-clusters-of-covid-19-an-epidemiological-and-serological-investigation-lancet-infectious-disease-2020\/\">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-6198","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\/6198","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=6198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6199,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6198\/revisions\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6198"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}