Associations of Early COVID-19 Cases in San Francisco With Domestic and International Travel. (21st May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gu, Wei; Deng, Xianding; Reyes, Kevin; Hsu, Elaine; Wang, Candace; Sotomayor-Gonzalez, Alicia; Federman, Scot; Bushnell, Brian; Miller, Steve; Chiu, Charles Y
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 71:Number 11(2020)
• Page Start: 2976
• Page End: 2980
• Publication Date: 2020-05-21
• Subjects: SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) -- hospital epidemiology -- pandemic -- travel history -- risk-based screening; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa599
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

Abstract: In early-to-mid March 2020, 20 of 46 (43%) COVID-19 cases at a tertiary care hospital in San Francisco, California were travel related. Cases were significantly associated with travel to either Europe (odds ratio, 6.1) or New York (odds ratio, 32.9). Viral genomes recovered from 9 of 12 (75%) cases co-clustered with lineages circulating in Europe.