Retrospective Screening for SARS-CoV-2 RNA in California, USA, Late 2019

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Hogan, Catherine A. ; Garamani, Natasha ; Sahoo, Malaya K. ; Huang, ChunHong ; Zehnder, James ; Pinsky, Benjamin A.
• Description:
  To investigate the possibility of earlier cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection than previously recognized, we retrospectively tested pooled samples from 1,700 persons with respiratory signs/symptoms seen at Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, California, USA, during the last 2 months of 2019. We found no evidence of earlier infection.
• Subjects:
  Adult Betacoronavirus Coronavirus Infections Covid-19 Humans Mass Screening Nasopharynx Pandemics Pneumonia, Viral Retrospective Studies Rna, Viral Time Factors

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 26(10):2487-2488
• Pubmed ID:
  32620178
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7510744
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Letter
• Place as Subject:
  California
• Volume:
  26
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:cc8a1bcf6ca09f2111b466ef747e542eef2545c7fda569e098e9e17eb2d6a536
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/94778/cdc_94778_DS1.pdf
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