Community Outbreak Investigation of SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Among Bus Riders in Eastern China

• Published in: JAMA internal medicine Vol. 180; no. 12; p. 1665
• Main Authors: Shen, Ye, Li, Changwei, Dong, Hongjun, Wang, Zhen, Martinez, Leonardo, Sun, Zhou, Handel, Andreas, Chen, Zhiping, Chen, Enfu, Ebell, Mark H, Wang, Fan, Yi, Bo, Wang, Haibin, Wang, Xiaoxiao, Wang, Aihong, Chen, Bingbing, Qi, Yanling, Liang, Lirong, Li, Yang, Ling, Feng, Chen, Junfang, Xu, Guozhang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.12.2020
• Subjects: Air Pollution; China - epidemiology; Cohort Studies; Communicable Disease Control - methods; Community-Acquired Infections - diagnosis; Community-Acquired Infections - epidemiology; Community-Acquired Infections - prevention & control; Community-Acquired Infections - transmission; COVID-19 - diagnosis; COVID-19 - epidemiology; COVID-19 - prevention & control; COVID-19 - transmission; Disease Transmission, Infectious - prevention & control; Disease Transmission, Infectious - statistics & numerical data; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Motor Vehicles - statistics & numerical data; Risk Assessment; SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification; SARS-CoV-2 - pathogenicity; Transportation - methods; China

Evidence of whether severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), can be transmitted as an aerosol (ie, airborne) has substantial public health implications. To investigate potential transmission routes of SARS-CoV-2 infectio...