2022
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Outbreak at a College With High Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccination Coverage—Connecticut, August 2021–September 2021
Bart S, Curtiss CC, Earnest R, Lobe-Costonis R, Peterson H, McWilliams C, Billig K, Hadler JL, Grubaugh ND, Arcelus VJ, Sosa LE. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Outbreak at a College With High Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccination Coverage—Connecticut, August 2021–September 2021. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2022, 75: s243-s250. PMID: 35675696, PMCID: PMC9214140, DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac422.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsConnecticutCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksHumansPhylogenySARS-CoV-2Vaccination CoverageVaccinesConceptsSARS-CoV-2 infectionLaboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infectionSARS-CoV-2 casesHigh vaccination coverageMultivariate logistic regressionDelta variant outbreakSARS-CoV-2 outbreakVaccine seriesVaccination historyVaccination coverageUnvaccinated studentsViral testsVariant outbreakInfected studentsUninfected studentsInfectionWeekly testingLogistic regressionAttack rateConnecticut DepartmentPublic healthViral sourcesViral genome sequencesOutbreakSocial gatheringsAssessment of Clinical Effectiveness of BNT162b2 COVID-19 Vaccine in US Adolescents
Oliveira CR, Niccolai LM, Sheikha H, Elmansy L, Kalinich CC, Grubaugh ND, Shapiro ED, Billig K, Breban M, Brito A, Earnest R, Fauver J, Koch T, Ott I, Petrone M, Vogels C, Pham K, Tikhonova I, Castaldi C, Mane S, Bilguvar K, De Kumar B, Ferguson D, Kerantzas N, Landry M, Peaper D, Schulz W. Assessment of Clinical Effectiveness of BNT162b2 COVID-19 Vaccine in US Adolescents. JAMA Network Open 2022, 5: e220935. PMID: 35238933, PMCID: PMC8895259, DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0935.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSARS-CoV-2 infectionCase-control studyVaccine effectivenessBNT162b2 vaccineSARS-CoV-2Medical recordsAsymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infectionBNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccineRetrospective case-control studyRT-PCR test resultsSARS-CoV-2 testUS adolescentsReverse transcription polymerase chain reaction testConditional logistic regression modelsTranscription polymerase chain reaction testDoses of vaccineControl participantsClinical trial populationsRelevant clinical dataCase participantsCOVID-19 vaccinePositive test resultsChain reaction testCounty of residenceNegative test results
2021
Multiple Transmission Chains within COVID-19 Cluster, Connecticut, USA, 2020 - Volume 27, Number 10—October 2021 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC
M. S, Flaherty E, Alpert T, Carlson S, Fasulo L, Earnest R, White EB, Dickens N, Brito AF, Grubaugh ND, Hadler JL, Sosa LE. Multiple Transmission Chains within COVID-19 Cluster, Connecticut, USA, 2020 - Volume 27, Number 10—October 2021 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2021, 27: 2669-2672. PMID: 34545794, PMCID: PMC8462310, DOI: 10.3201/eid2710.211196.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2020
Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater tracks community infection dynamics
Peccia J, Zulli A, Brackney DE, Grubaugh ND, Kaplan EH, Casanovas-Massana A, Ko AI, Malik AA, Wang D, Wang M, Warren JL, Weinberger DM, Arnold W, Omer SB. Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater tracks community infection dynamics. Nature Biotechnology 2020, 38: 1164-1167. PMID: 32948856, PMCID: PMC8325066, DOI: 10.1038/s41587-020-0684-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSARS-CoV-2 positive test resultsSARS-CoV-2 RNAPositive test resultsHospital admissionSpecimen collectionCOVID-19 hospital admissionsLocal hospital admissionsSARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrationsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreakRNA concentrationDisease 2019 outbreakClinical test resultsInfection surveillanceInfection dynamicsPositive testPopulation-wide levelCommunity infection dynamicsAdmissionNew HavenCoast-to-Coast Spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the Early Epidemic in the United States
Fauver JR, Petrone ME, Hodcroft EB, Shioda K, Ehrlich HY, Watts AG, Vogels CBF, Brito AF, Alpert T, Muyombwe A, Razeq J, Downing R, Cheemarla NR, Wyllie AL, Kalinich CC, Ott IM, Quick J, Loman NJ, Neugebauer KM, Greninger AL, Jerome KR, Roychoudhury P, Xie H, Shrestha L, Huang ML, Pitzer VE, Iwasaki A, Omer SB, Khan K, Bogoch II, Martinello RA, Foxman EF, Landry ML, Neher RA, Ko AI, Grubaugh ND. Coast-to-Coast Spread of SARS-CoV-2 during the Early Epidemic in the United States. Cell 2020, 181: 990-996.e5. PMID: 32386545, PMCID: PMC7204677, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.021.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSARS-CoV-2Federal travel restrictionsSARS-CoV-2 transmissionCOVID-19 patientsCoronavirus SARS-CoV-2SARS-CoV-2 introductionsEarly SARS-CoV-2 transmissionPattern of spreadSustained transmissionLocal surveillanceEarly epidemicInternational importationCOVID-19 outbreakUnited StatesViral genomeInternational travel patternsPatientsCritical needTravel restrictions