id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-274788-oyk8js16 Bae, Sanghyuk Epidemiological Characteristics of COVID-19 Outbreak at Fitness Centers in Cheonan, Korea 2020-08-05 .txt text/plain 3249 184 58 BACKGROUND: In February 2020, a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak was reported in fitness centers in Cheonan, Korea. We determined the epidemiological characteristics of confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and estimated the time-dependent reproduction number to assess the transmission dynamics of the infection. In this report, we describe the epidemiological characteristics of the COVID-19 outbreak at fitness centers in Cheonan, Korea, based on the official epidemiological investigation, and document the effectiveness of contact tracing and isolation at containing the outbreaks. In the present study, we described epidemiological characteristics of a COVID-19 outbreak in fitness centers in Cheonan, Korea from February 24 to March 13, 2020. A previous epidemiological investigation of an outbreak in a single call center in Seoul, Korea reported that 99.8% of traced contacts had been tested. ./cache/cord-274788-oyk8js16.txt ./txt/cord-274788-oyk8js16.txt