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First Mildly Ill, Non-Hospitalized Case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Without Viral Transmission in the United States — Maricopa County, Arizona, 2020

Published time: 02 April 2020

Authors: Sarah E Scott,  Karen Zabel,  Jennifer Collins,  Katherine C Hobbs, Melissa J Kretschmer,  Mitchell Lach,  Katie Turnbow,  Lindsay Speck, Jessica R White,  Keila Maldonado,  Brandon Howard,  Jeanene Fowler, Sonia Singh,  Susan Robinson,  Alexandra Peterson Pompa, Kevin Chatham-Stephens,  Amy Xie,  Jordan Cates,  Stephen Lindstrom, Xiaoyan Lu,  Melissa A Rolfes,  Marcy Flanagan,  Rebecca Sunenshine, Maricopa County COVID-19 Case Investigation Team

Keywords: COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, illness severity, viral transmission, serial testing


Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes a range of illness severity. Mild illness has been reported, but whether illness severity correlates with infectivity is unknown. We describe the public health investigation of a mildly ill, non-hospitalized COVID-19 case who traveled to China.


First Mildly Ill, Non-Hospitalized Case of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Without Viral Transmission in the United States

 

Reference: https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa374

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