id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-252005-3ld5e7f5 Lewis, Nathaniel M Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States 2020-08-16 .txt text/plain 3039 209 55 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention collaborated (CDC) with state and local health departments in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Salt Lake City, Utah, metropolitan areas to identify persons with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection captured by public health surveillance during March 22-April 25, 2020. The investigation team defined persons identified by local health departments as "index patients." Households were selected by convenience sampling and considered eligible if the index patient was not hospitalized at the time, lived with ≥1 additional person, and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 rRT-PCR from a nasopharyngeal (NP) swab collected ≤10 days prior to enrollment. One study from China estimated a 28% SIR for spouses of primary patients and 4% for household contacts aged A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 10 <18 years by SARS-CoV-2 rRT-PCR testing [6] . ./cache/cord-252005-3ld5e7f5.txt ./txt/cord-252005-3ld5e7f5.txt