Volume 27, Number 4—April 2021
Dispatch
Analysis of Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic Transmission in SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak, Germany, 2020
Table 1
Demographics of coronavirus disease case-patients and their contacts in a district in southern Germany*
| Case type | No. (%) asymptomatic | No. (%) symptomatic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phase not specified or both† | Presymptomatic phase only | Symptomatic phase only | |||
| Case-patients | |||||
| Total | 7 (13.2) | 46 (86.8) | NA | NA | 53 (100) |
| Female | 3 (11.5) | 23 (88.5) | NA | NA | 26 (100) |
| Male | 4 (14.8) | 23 (85.2) | NA | NA | 27 (100) |
| Median age |
36 (IQR 6–68) |
40 (IQR 29–50) |
NA |
NA |
39.5 (IQR 29–50)‡ |
| Contact persons by type of exposure | |||||
| HC | 7 (16.7) | 35 (83.3) | NA | NA | 42 (100) |
| OC | 52 (24.5) | 48 (22.6) | 81 (38.2) | 31 (14.6) | 212 (100) |
*HC, household contact; IQR, interquartile range; NA, not applicable; OC, nonhousehold or other contact. †The phase in which the contact occurred was not specified, or contact occurred in both phases. ‡Three of 53 cases were children <15 y of age.
1These first authors contributed equally to this article.
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