{"id":8225,"date":"2020-07-14T11:15:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8225"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T18:15:51","slug":"investigation-and-serologic-follow-up-of-contacts-of-early-confirmed-case-patient-with-covid-19-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/14\/investigation-and-serologic-follow-up-of-contacts-of-early-confirmed-case-patient-with-covid-19-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation and Serologic Follow-Up of Contacts of Early Confirmed Case-Patient with COVID-19, United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A contact investigation for an early confirmed COVID-19 case from Washington\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">State\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">identified 50 contacts<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, none of whom<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had evidence of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0SARS-CoV-2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0infection<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0through 6 weeks of follow-up<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. All contacts were monitored daily for 14 days\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">following<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">exposure.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Eight<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">developed symptoms but tested negative via\u00a0rRT-PCR.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Thirty-eight<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">contacts underwent voluntary enhanced contact\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">investigation, revealing varying degrees of unprotected face-to-face interactions with the case-patient. Negative\u00a0rRT-PCR and serologic follow<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&#8211;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">up collected\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">appro<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ximately\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">6\u00a0weeks\u00a0post<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">exposure suggest no evidence of secondary transmission.<\/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\">Chu et al. (May 29, 2020). Investigation and Serologic Follow-Up of Contacts of Early Confirmed Case-Patient with COVID-19, United States. Emerging Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2608.201423\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3201\/eid2608.201423<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&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>A contact investigation for an early confirmed COVID-19 case from Washington\u00a0State\u00a0identified 50 contacts, none of whom\u00a0had evidence of\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0infection\u00a0through 6 weeks of follow-up. All contacts were monitored daily for 14 days\u00a0following\u00a0exposure.\u00a0Eight\u00a0developed symptoms but tested negative via\u00a0rRT-PCR.\u00a0Thirty-eight\u00a0contacts underwent voluntary enhanced contact\u00a0investigation, revealing varying degrees of unprotected face-to-face interactions with the case-patient. Negative\u00a0rRT-PCR and serologic follow&#8211;up collected\u00a0approximately\u00a06\u00a0weeks\u00a0post\u00a0exposure suggest&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/14\/investigation-and-serologic-follow-up-of-contacts-of-early-confirmed-case-patient-with-covid-19-united-states\/\">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-8225","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\/8225","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=8225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8226,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8225\/revisions\/8226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8225"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}