Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in a high transmission setting increases the risk of severe COVID-19 compared with exposure to a low transmission setting?

Dong Chen; Chenchan Hu; Feifei Su; Qifa Song; Zhen Wang

doi:10.1093/jtm/taaa094

Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in a high transmission setting increases the risk of severe COVID-19 compared with exposure to a low transmission setting?

J Travel Med. 2020 Aug 20;27(5):taaa094. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa094.

Authors

Dong Chen¹, Chenchan Hu¹, Feifei Su¹, Qifa Song², Zhen Wang³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Disease, The Ding Li Clinical College of Wenzhou Medical University and Sixth People's Hospital of Wenzhou, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China.
² Central Laboratory, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
³ Research Center of Blood Transfusion Medicine, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medicine, Zhejiang Provincial People's Hospital, People's Hospital of Hangzhou Medical College, Hangzhou, China.

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Keywords: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19); case fatality rate; epicentre; healthcare resource availability; repeat exposure; severity of disease; viral load.

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MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
China
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology*
Coronavirus*
Humans
Hypokalemia*
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral*
SARS-CoV-2
Travel