Volume 20 of Issue 3 | PLoS pathogens
Authors: Paredes MI, Perofsky AC, Frisbie L, Moncla LH, Roychoudhury P, Xie H, Bakhash SAM, Kong K, Arnould I, Nguyen TV, Wendm ST, Hajian P, Ellis S, Mathias PC, Greninger AL, Starita LM, Frazar CD, Ryke E, Zhong W, Gamboa L, Threlkeld M, Lee J, Stone J, McDermot E, Truong M, Shendure J, Oltean HN, Viboud C, Chu H, Müller NF, Bedford T
SARS-CoV-2 transmission is largely driven by heterogeneous dynamics at a local scale, leaving local health departments to design interventions with limited information. We analyzed SARS-CoV-2 genomes sampled between February 2020 and March 2022 jointly with epidemiological and cell phone mobility data to investigate fine scale spatiotemporal SARS-CoV-2 transmission dynamics in King County, Washington, a diverse, metropolitan US county. We applied an approximate structured coalescent approach to model transmission within and between North King County and South King County alongside the rate of outside introductions into the county. Our phylodynamic analyses reveal that following stay-at-home orders, the epidemic trajectories of North and South King County began to diverge. We find that South King County consistently had more reported and estimated cases, COVID-19 hospitalizations, and longer persistence of local viral transmission when compared to North King County, where viral importations from outside drove a larger proportion of new cases. Using mobility and demographic data, we also find that South King County experienced a more modest and less sustained reduction in mobility following stay-at-home orders than North King County, while also bearing more socioeconomic inequities that might contribute to a disproportionate burden of SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Overall, our findings suggest a role for local-scale phylodynamics in understanding the heterogeneous transmission landscape.
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mBio
Authors: Lai L-Y, Satishkumar N, Cardozo S, Hemmadi V, Marques LB, Huang L, Filipe SR, Pinho MG, Chambers HF, Chatterjee SS
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Authors: Jain S, Elias P, Poterucha T, Randazzo M, Lopez Jimenez F, Khera R, Perez M, Ouyang D, Pirruccello J, Salerno M, Einstein A, Avram R, Tison G, Nadkarni G, Natarajan V, Pierson E, Beecy A, Kumaraiah D, Haggerty C, Avari Silva JN, Maddox TM
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Authors: Elias P, Jain S, Poterucha T, Randazzo M, Lopez Jimenez F, Khera R, Perez M, Ouyang D, Pirruccello J, Salerno M, Einstein A, Avram R, Tison G, Nadkarni G, Natarajan V, Pierson E, Beecy A, Kumaraiah D, Haggerty C, Avari Silva JN, Maddox TM
Current Trauma Reports
Authors: Abrams H, Abuali I, Khan AM, Riano I, Allen G, Spinner MA, Komanduri KV
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Authors: Bertumen JB, Pascopella L, Han E, Glenn-Finer R, Wong RJ, Chitnis A, Jaganath D, Jewell M, Gounder P, McElroy S, Stockman L, Barry P
Journal of electrocardiology
Authors: Yan BW, Yip D, Mallidi J, Goldschlager N
Open forum infectious diseases
Authors: Louie JK, Agraz-Lara R, Velásquez GE, Phillips A, Szumowski JD
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Authors: Silverman AL, Bhasuran B, Mosenia A, Yasini F, Ramasamy G, Banerjee I, Gupta S, Mardirossian T, Narain R, Sewell J, Butte AJ, Rudrapatna VA
Chest
Authors: Arger N, Sharp M, Bonham C, Patel D, Gupta R, James WE
