Exposures in adult outpatients with COVID‐19 infection during early community transmission, Tennessee

United States guidelines on social distancing were issued on March 16, 2020, following early community transmission. 1 To ascertain sources of presumptive exposure risk factors among non‐hospitalized adults with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in the period coinciding with issuance of national social distancing guidelines, we performed a cross‐sectional telephone survey of adults with SARS‐CoV‐2 infection diagnosed within the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) system in Nashville, Tennessee. Additional IVY Network Investigators and CDC COVID‐19 Response Team investigators included H. Keipp Talbot MD, MPH, Carlos G. Grijalva MD, MPH, Todd W. Rice MD, Adrienne H. Baughman, Robert McClellan, Li Wang MS, and Kimberly W. Hart MA from Vanderbilt University, Nathan I. Shapiro MD from Harvard Medical School, and Ahmed M. Kassem MBBCh, PhD, Courtney N. Sciarratta MPH, Nicole Dzuris MSPH, Eric P. Griggs MPH, Emily R. Smith MPH, Constance E. Ogokeh MPH, Michael Wu MSc, Sara S. Kim MPH, Paula L. Marcet PhD, and Akshita Siddula MSPH from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CONFLICT OF INTEREST This research was supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (contract number 75D30120C07637).