Table 2.
Actively monitored contacts and PUIs owing to contact with a patient with COVID-19, Illinois, USA, 2020
| Since first reported date of symptom onset |
On or after date of first positive specimen |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total contacts | Did not become a PUI | Met PUI criteria* | PUIs positive for COVID-19† | Total contacts | Did not become a PUI | Met PUI criteria* | PUIs positive for COVID-19† | ||
| Community contacts | |||||||||
| High risk | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1/1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1/1 | |
| Medium high | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0/2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ·· | |
| Medium | 28 | 24 | 4 | 0/4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ·· | |
| Low | 116 | 111 | 5 | 0/5 | 65 | 61 | 4 | 0/4 | |
| Total | 152 | 140 | 12 | 1/12 | 67 | 62 | 5 | 1/5 | |
| Health-care personnel contacts | |||||||||
| High risk | 32 | 28 | 4 | 0/4 | 22 | 20 | 2 | 0/2 | |
| Medium high | 39 | 30 | 9 | 0/9 | 29 | 24 | 5 | 0/5 | |
| Medium | 12 | 6 | 6 | 0/6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0/4 | |
| Low | 112 | 99 | 13 | 0/13 | 95 | 84 | 11 | 0/11 | |
| Total | 195 | 163 | 32 | 0/32 | 155 | 133 | 22 | 0/22 | |
| Total contacts | 347 | 303 | 44 | 1‡ | 222 | 195 | 27 | 1‡ | |
Data are n or n/N. PUI=person under investigation. COVID-19=coronavirus disease 2019.
*
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention PUI criteria for contacts of a confirmed case: fever (subjective or objective) or signs or symptoms of lower respiratory illness (eg, cough or shortness of breath).
†
PUIs were tested for COVID-19 using real-time RT-PCR for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. Only results from PUIs tested for COVID-19 in this investigation are presented here.
‡
The index patient, Patient 1, is excluded from this total