Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2021)

Multiple Transmission Chains within COVID-19 Cluster, Connecticut, USA, 2020

  • Stephen M. Bart,
  • Eileen Flaherty,
  • Tara Alpert,
  • Sherry Carlson,
  • Lisa Fasulo,
  • Rebecca Earnest,
  • Elizabeth B. White,
  • Noel Dickens,
  • Anderson F. Brito,
  • Nathan D. Grubaugh,
  • James L. Hadler,
  • Lynn E. Sosa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2710.211196
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 10
pp. 2669 – 2672

Abstract

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In fall 2020, a coronavirus disease cluster comprising 16 cases occurred in Connecticut, USA. Epidemiologic and genomic evidence supported transmission among persons at a school and fitness center but not a workplace. The multiple transmission chains identified within this cluster highlight the necessity of a combined investigatory approach.

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