Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Prevalence, Seroprevalence, and Exposure among Evacuees from Wuhan, China, 2020

Details

• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Hallowell, Benjamin D. ; Carlson, Christina M. ; Jacobs, Jesica R. ; Pomeroy, Mary ; Steinberg, Jonathan ; Tenforde, Mark W. ; McDonald, Emily ; Foster, Loretta ; Feldstein, Leora R. ; Rolfes, Melissa A. ; Haynes, Amber ; Abedi, Glen R. ; Odongo, George S. ; Saruwatari, Kim ; Rider, Errin C. ; Douville, Gina ; Bhakta, Neenaben ; Maniatis, Panagiotis ; Lindstrom, Stephen ; Thornburg, Natalie J. ; Lu, Xiaoyan ; Whitaker, Brett L. ; Kamili, Shifaq ; Sakthivel, Senthilkumar K. ; Wang, Lijuan ; Malapati, Lakshmi ; Murray, Janna R. ; Lynch, Brian ; Cetron, Martin ; Brown, Clive ; Roohi, Shahrokh ; Rotz, Lisa ; Borntrager, Denise ; Ishii, Kenta ; Moser, Kathleen ; Rasheed, Mohammad ; Freeman, Brandi ; Lester, Sandra ; Corbett, Kizzmekia S. ; Abiona, Olubukola M. ; Hutchinson, Geoffrey B. ; Graham, Barney S. ; Pesik, Nicki ; Mahon, Barbara ; Braden, Christopher ; Behravesh, Casey Barton ; Stewart, Rebekah ; Knight, Nancy ; Hall, Aron J. ; Killerby, Marie E.
• Description:
  To determine prevalence of, seroprevalence of, and potential exposure to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) among a cohort of evacuees returning to the United States from Wuhan, China, in January 2020, we conducted a cross-sectional study of quarantined evacuees from 1 repatriation flight. Overall, 193 of 195 evacuees completed exposure surveys and submitted upper respiratory or serum specimens or both at arrival in the United States. Nearly all evacuees had taken preventive measures to limit potential exposure while in Wuhan, and none had detectable SARS-CoV-2 in upper respiratory tract specimens, suggesting the absence of asymptomatic respiratory shedding among this group at the time of testing. Evidence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 was detected in 1 evacuee, who reported experiencing no symptoms or high-risk exposures in the previous 2 months. These findings demonstrated that this group of evacuees posed a low risk of introducing SARS-CoV-2 to the United States.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Betacoronavirus Child Child, Preschool Clinical Laboratory Techniques Coronavirus Infections Covid-19 Cross-Sectional Studies Female Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Male Middle Aged Pandemics Pneumonia, Viral Prevalence Quarantine Sars-Cov-2 Seroepidemiologic Studies Travel Young Adult

  More +
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 26(9):1998-2004
• Pubmed ID:
  32620182
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7454104
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  China ; United States
• Location:
  Asia ; North America
• Volume:
  26
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:de3466eed3614f788d71da43b3f563eb1d0fea0293719b442326f10a9663d50d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/93014/cdc_93014_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 454.63 KB ]