Tracking the onset date of the community spread of SARS-CoV-2 in western countries.
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz
; 115: e200183, 2020.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-750955
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ABSTRACT
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) rapidly spread around the world during 2020, but the precise time in which the virus began to spread locally is difficult to trace for most countries. Here, we estimate the probable onset date of the community spread of SARS-CoV-2 for heavily affected countries from Western Europe and the Americas on the basis of the cumulative number of deaths reported during the early stage of the epidemic. Our results support that SARS-CoV-2 probably started to spread locally in all western countries analysed between mid-January and mid-February 2020, thus long before community transmission was officially recognised and control measures were implemented.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Coronavirus Infections
/
Community-Acquired Infections
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
0074-02760200183
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