Associations of Early COVID-19 Cases in San Francisco With Domestic and International Travel

W. Gu, Xianding Deng, Kevin R Reyes, Elaine D. Hsu, Candace Wang, Alicia Sotomayor-González, S. Federman, Brian Bushnell, Steve Miller, C. Chiu

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2020

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.

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Field of study: Medicine

10.1093/cid/ciaa599