{"id":6795,"date":"2020-05-12T16:52:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T23:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:53:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:53:09","slug":"identification-and-monitoring-of-international-travelers-during-the-initial-phase-of-an-outbreak-of-covid-19-california-february-3-march-17-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/12\/identification-and-monitoring-of-international-travelers-during-the-initial-phase-of-an-outbreak-of-covid-19-california-february-3-march-17-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Identification and Monitoring of International Travelers During the Initial Phase of an Outbreak of COVID-19 \u2014 California, February 3\u2013March 17, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"40\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Between early February and mid<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">March<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2020 almost 12,000 passengers from selected countries were screened upon entry to the US<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">monitored by local health jurisdictions in California.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">these,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">3\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">travelers were matched to COVID-19 patients reported to the state by April 15<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, out of over 25,000 cases overall. This effort was found to be labor-intensive and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">its utility\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">limited by incomplete information and asymptomatic transmission<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. These efforts<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0have\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">diverted<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0resources needed for implementing other non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19.\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<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Myers et al. (May 11, 2020). Identification and Monitoring of International Travelers During the Initial Phase of an Outbreak of COVID-19 \u2014 California, February 3\u2013March 17, 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6919e4\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6919e4<\/span><\/i><\/a><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>Between early February and mid&#8211;March\u00a02020 almost 12,000 passengers from selected countries were screened upon entry to the US\u00a0and\u00a0monitored by local health jurisdictions in California.\u00a0Of\u00a0these,\u00a03\u00a0travelers were matched to COVID-19 patients reported to the state by April 15th, out of over 25,000 cases overall. This effort was found to be labor-intensive and\u00a0its utility\u00a0limited by incomplete information and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/12\/identification-and-monitoring-of-international-travelers-during-the-initial-phase-of-an-outbreak-of-covid-19-california-february-3-march-17-2020\/\">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-6795","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\/6795","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=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6796,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}