Epidemiologic Evidence for Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 during Church Singing, Australia, 2020
Anthea L. Katelaris
, Jessica Wells, Penelope Clark, Sophie Norton, Rebecca Rockett, Alicia Arnott, Vitali Sintchenko, Stephen Corbett, and Shopna K. Bag
Author affiliations: Western Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (A. Katelaris, J. Wells, P. Clark, S. Norton, S. Corbett, S.K. Bag); The University of Sydney, Sydney (S. Norton, R. Rockett, A. Arnott, V. Sintchenko, S Corbett, S.K. Bag); New South Wales Health Pathology, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia (R. Rockett, A. Arnott, V. Sintchenko)
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Figure 1. Epidemiologic curve of an outbreak of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in a church, Australia, 2020. Red indicates symptom onset date for the index case-patient, who sang at 4 services on July 15–17; secondary case-patient symptom onset dates are color coded by date of service attendance as indicated along baseline (1 secondary case-patient attended services on July 16 and 17). The 5 case-patients with onsets of July 22–26 also had exposures to earlier outbreak case-patients in their households.
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