ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020
Hospital and Population-Based Evidence for COVID-19 Early Circulation in the East of France.
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- An Epidemiological Assessment of SARS-CoV-2 in the Sewage System of a Higher Education Institution.Annals of global health · 2024Article
- Major interregional differences in France of COVID-19 hospitalization and mortality from January to June 2020.Revue d'epidemiologie et de sante publique · 2022Article
- Reconstruction of the origin of the first major SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Germany.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2022Article
- Covid-19: Early Cases and Disease Spread.Annals of global health · 2022Review
- Highlighting the impact of social relationships on the propagation of respiratory viruses using percolation theory.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Screening around a COVID-19 cluster: Exploring its impact on a local virus outbreak.Infectious diseases now · 2021Article
- The Grand Magal of Touba was spared by the COVID-19 pandemic.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021Article
- Linked transmission chains of imported SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.351 across mainland France, January 2021.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2021Article
- "Mass gathering events and COVID-19 transmission in Borriana (Spain): A retrospective cohort study".PloS one · 2021Article
- Evidence for transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at religious mass gatherings: A systematic review.New microbes and new infectionsReview
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Abstract
backgroundUnderstanding SARS-CoV-2 dynamics and transmission is a serious issue. Its propagation needs to be modeled and controlled. The Alsace region in the East of France has been among the first French COVID-19 clusters in 2020.
methodsWe confront evidence from three independent and retrospective sources: a population-based survey through internet, an analysis of the medical records from hospital emergency care services, and a review of medical biology laboratory data. We also check the role played in virus propagation by a large religious meeting that gathered over 2000 participants from all over France mid-February in Mulhouse.
resultsOur results suggest that SARS-CoV-2 was circulating several weeks before the first officially recognized case in Alsace on 26 February 2020 and the sanitary alert on 3 March 2020. The religious gathering seems to have played a role for secondary dissemination of the epidemic in France, but not in creating the local outbreak.
conclusionsOur results illustrate how the integration of data coming from multiple sources could help trigger an early alarm in the context of an emerging disease. Good information data systems, able to produce earlier alerts, could have avoided a general lockdown in France.
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