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Absence of long-range severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission from a highly infectious patient with undiagnosed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in a positive-pressure room

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2021

Chanu Rhee*
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Infection Control Department, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Meghan A. Baker
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Infection Control Department, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Infection Control Department, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Robert Tucker
Affiliation:
Infection Control Department, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Michael Klompas
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Infection Control Department, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Author for correspondence: Chanu Rhee, E-mail: crhee@bwh.harvard.edu

Abstract

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Research Brief
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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