{"id":6725,"date":"2020-05-08T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T23:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2021-03-16T16:01:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T23:01:01","slug":"public-health-response-to-the-initiation-and-spread-of-pandemic-covid-19-in-the-united-states-february-24-april-21-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/08\/public-health-response-to-the-initiation-and-spread-of-pandemic-covid-19-in-the-united-states-february-24-april-21-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Response to the Initiation and Spread of Pandemic COVID-19 in the United States, February 24-April 21, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The CDC COVID-19 response team reports on factors associated with spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the US.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The first confirmed COVID-19 case in the U<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">S<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0was reported on January 21, 2020. The outbreak appeared contained through February, and then accelerated rapidly<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in March<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">F<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">actors contribut<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to accelerated spread\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">includ<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0continued travel-associated importations, large gatherings, introductions into high-risk workplaces and densely populated areas, and cryptic transmission resulting from limited testing and asymptomatic and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">pre-symptomatic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0spread.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Factors that amplified the March acceleration\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s well as<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0mitigation strategies that were implemented can inform public health decisions as\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">prepar<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ing<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0for potential re-emergences.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Schuchat<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. (May 8, 2020). Public Health Response to the Initiation and Spread of Pandemic COVID-19 in the United States, February 24-April 21, 2020.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0MMWR<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6918e2\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6918e2<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CDC COVID-19 response team reports on factors associated with spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the US.\u00a0The first confirmed COVID-19 case in the US\u00a0was reported on January 21, 2020. The outbreak appeared contained through February, and then accelerated rapidly\u00a0in March.\u00a0Factors contributing\u00a0to accelerated spread\u00a0included\u00a0continued travel-associated importations, large gatherings, introductions into high-risk workplaces and densely populated areas, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/08\/public-health-response-to-the-initiation-and-spread-of-pandemic-covid-19-in-the-united-states-february-24-april-21-2020\/\">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":[16],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","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=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6726,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/6726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}