{"id":8662,"date":"2020-07-31T10:29:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T17:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8662"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:29:52","slug":"observations-of-the-global-epidemiology-of-covid-19-from-the-prepandemic-period-using-web-based-surveillance-a-cross-sectional-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/31\/observations-of-the-global-epidemiology-of-covid-19-from-the-prepandemic-period-using-web-based-surveillance-a-cross-sectional-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Observations of the Global Epidemiology of COVID-19 from the\u00a0Prepandemic\u00a0Period Using Web-Based Surveillance:\u00a0A Cross-Sectional Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"17\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Identifying cases of COVID-19 using official websites, press releases, press conference transcripts, and social media feeds of national ministries of health, Dawood et al. conclude that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">travel<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ers<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to China, Italy, or Iran accounted for almost two-thirds of the first reported cases in 99 other countries.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"17\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Although clusters of household transmission associated with these index cases were common, clusters in occupational or community settings tended to be larger.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dawood et al. (July 2020). Observations of the Global Epidemiology of COVID-19 from the\u00a0Prepandemic\u00a0Period Using Web-Based Surveillance:\u00a0A Cross-Sectional Analysis.\u00a0The Lancet\u00a0Infectious Diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S1473-3099(20)30581-8\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/S1473-3099(20)30581-8<\/span><\/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>Identifying cases of COVID-19 using official websites, press releases, press conference transcripts, and social media feeds of national ministries of health, Dawood et al. conclude that\u00a0travelers\u00a0to China, Italy, or Iran accounted for almost two-thirds of the first reported cases in 99 other countries.\u00a0 Although clusters of household transmission associated with these index cases were common,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/07\/31\/observations-of-the-global-epidemiology-of-covid-19-from-the-prepandemic-period-using-web-based-surveillance-a-cross-sectional-analysis\/\">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-8662","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\/8662","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=8662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8663,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/revisions\/8663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8662"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}