Volume 26, Number 9—September 2020
Synopsis
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Prevalence, Seroprevalence, and Exposure among Evacuees from Wuhan, China, 2020
Benjamin D. Hallowell1, Christina M. Carlson, Jesica R. Jacobs, Mary Pomeroy, Jonathan Steinberg, Mark W. Tenforde, Emily McDonald, Loretta Foster, Leora R. Feldstein, Melissa A. Rolfes, Amber Haynes, Glen R. Abedi, George S. Odongo, Kim Saruwatari, Errin C. Rider, Gina Douville, Neenaben Bhakta, Panagiotis Maniatis, Stephen Lindstrom, Natalie J. Thornburg, Xiaoyan Lu, Brett L. Whitaker, Shifaq Kamili, Senthilkumar K. Sakthivel, Lijuan Wang, Lakshmi Malapati, Janna R. Murray, Brian Lynch, Martin Cetron, Clive Brown, Shahrokh Roohi, Lisa Rotz, Denise Borntrager, Kenta Ishii, Kathleen Moser, Mohammad Rasheed, Brandi Freeman, Sandra Lester, Kizzmekia S. Corbett, Olubukola M. Abiona, Geoffrey B. Hutchinson, Barney S. Graham, Nicki Pesik, Barbara Mahon, Christopher Braden, Casey Barton Behravesh, Rebekah Stewart, Nancy Knight, Aron J. Hall, and Marie E. Killerby
Table 3
Precautions taken to prevent infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 by 193 evacuees while in Wuhan, China*
| Precaution | No./total no. (%)† |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Total, n = 193 | Submitted NP or OP sample,‡ n = 191 | Submitted serum sample,§ n = 186 | |
| Face mask use | |||
| Usually wore a face mask in past 2 mo while in public | 63/185 (34) | 63/184 (34) | 63/178 (35) |
| Usually wore a face mask in past 1 mo while in public after hearing about COVID-19 |
143/188 (76) |
143/187 (76) |
138/181 (76) |
| Limited time in public | |||
| In past 1 mo after hearing about COVID-19 | 178/188 (95) | 176/186 (95) | 171/181 (94) |
| By taking the following precautions | |||
| Avoided public transport | 150/178 (84) | 148/176 (84) | 144/171 (84) |
| Avoided public gatherings | 154/178 (87) | 153/176 (87) | 148/171 (87) |
| Did not attend work¶ | 53/123 (43) | 53/121 (44) | 53/123 (43) |
| Did not attend school/university# | 19/30 (63) | 19/30 (63) | 15/25 (60) |
| Avoided all public settings (e.g., grocery stores, restaurants) | 125/178 (70) | 124/176 (70) | 119/171 (70) |
*COVID-19, coronavirus disease; NP, nasopharyngeal swab; OP, oropharyngeal swab.
†Data for persons for whom responses were missing were excluded from the denominator.
‡Limited to persons who submitted an NP and/or OP specimen.
§Limited to persons who submitted serum specimen.
¶Limited to persons who reported an occupation (other than student, stay-at-home parent, or retired).
#Limited to persons 2–18 years of age and those reporting student as occupation.
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