Household Transmission of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Alpha Variant—United States, 2021
Author(s) -
Marisa A.P. Donnelly,
Meagan Chuey,
Raymond Soto,
Noah G. Schwartz,
Victoria Chu,
Stacey Konkle,
Sadia Sleweon,
Jasmine Ruffin,
Dana L. Haberling,
Sarah Anne J. Guagliardo,
Robyn A. Stoddard,
Raydel Anderson,
Clint N. Morgan,
Rebecca Rossetti,
David W. McCormick,
Reed Magleby,
Sarah W. Sheldon,
Elizabeth A. Dietrich,
Anna Uehara,
Adam C. Retchless,
Suxiang Tong,
Jennifer Folster,
Jan Drobeniuc,
Marla Petway,
Brett Austin,
Sarah Stous,
Eric McDonald,
Seema Jain,
Meghan Hudziec,
Ginger Stringer,
Bernadette Albanese,
Sarah Elizabeth Totten,
J. Erin Staples,
Marie E. Killerby,
Laura J. Hughes,
Almea Matanock,
Mark E. Beatty,
Jacqueline E. Tate,
Hannah L. Kirking,
Christopher H. Hsu,
Apophia Namageyo-Funa,
Byron F. Robinson,
Monique A. Foster,
Lorraine N. Alexander,
Michelle O’Hegarty,
Tarah Somers,
Horacio Ruiseñor-Escudero,
Yessica Gomez,
Winston E. Abara,
Elizabeth Zambrano Garza,
Ben W. Humrighouse,
Benjamin Monroe,
Melissa Arons,
Blake Cherney,
Ayan K. Chakrabarti,
Melissa Whaley,
Jeni Vuong,
Laird J. Ruth,
Kristine Lindell,
Joaudimir Castro Georgi,
Susan. Visser,
Maggie Silver,
Grace E. Marx,
Rebecca J. Chancey,
Paul S. Mead,
Michelle A. Waltenburg,
Jennifer Lehman,
Anna Drexler,
Jamie Pawloski,
Janae L. Stovall,
Karen L. Boroughs,
Aaron C. Brault,
Sabrina Moreira dos Santos Weis-Torres,
Lili Punkova,
Tao Lily Jia,
Peter Browning,
Shanna Bolcen,
Panagiotis Maniatis,
Sohee Park,
Kimberly Moss,
Briana Zellner,
Kristina Ortiz,
Ying Tao,
Yan Li,
Anna Kelleher,
Han Jia Justin NG,
Jing Zhang,
Brian Lynch,
Peter W. Cook,
Clinton R. Paden,
Krista Queen,
Magdalena Medrzycki,
Shan Rogers,
Phili Wong,
Shilpi Jain,
Alexandra Tejada,
John Michael Metz,
Ebenezer David,
Xiaoling Tang,
Nhien T. Wynn,
Rebekah Tiller,
Senthilkumar K. Sakthivel,
Srinivasan Velusamy,
Brett Whitaker,
Ian W. Pray,
Perrine Marcenac,
Caroline Pratt,
Rachael L. Ticho Zacks,
Anna R Yousaf,
Hannah E. Segaloff,
Farrell A. Tobolowsky,
Melanie J. Firestone,
Emily N. Schmitt-Matzen,
Talya Shragai,
Stephen LaVoie,
Kaitlin F. Mitchell,
Maria I Dionicio Bernabe,
Graciela Zuniga-Groot,
Anna Liza M. Manlutac,
Christopher Grano,
Heather Baily,
Alexis Burakoff,
Lindsey Webb,
Tara M Stitzlein,
Kimberly Huynh-Templeman,
Shaun Dunyak,
Nicholas J Pysnack,
Christopher Delmonico,
Wyatt Giddmore,
Hannah M Fortune,
Hunter Olsen,
Evelyn Álvarez,
Cassandra N Bundalian,
Hannah Collins,
Aleigha M Ricci,
Tia Ling
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciac125
Subject(s) - medicine , transmission (telecommunications) , confidence interval , alpha (finance) , coronavirus , demography , immunology , covid-19 , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , surgery , construct validity , sociology , electrical engineering , patient satisfaction , engineering
In Spring 2021, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) B.1.1.7 (Alpha) became the predominant variant in the United States. Research suggests that Alpha has increased transmissibility compared with non-Alpha lineages. We estimated household secondary infection risk (SIR), assessed characteristics associated with transmission, and compared symptoms of persons with Alpha and non-Alpha infections.
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