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Karen K. Wong
Researcher at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Publications - 40
Citations - 1622
Karen K. Wong is an academic researcher from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Ebola virus. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 34 publications receiving 1312 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen K. Wong include College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific & United States Public Health Service.
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Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Adult Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 - Georgia, March 2020.
Jeremy A W Gold,Karen K. Wong,Christine M Szablewski,Priti R. Patel,John Rossow,Juliana Almeida da Silva,Pavithra Natarajan,Sapna Bamrah Morris,Robyn Neblett Fanfair,Jessica Rogers-Brown,Beau B. Bruce,Sean D Browning,Sean D Browning,Alfonso C Hernandez-Romieu,Nathan W. Furukawa,Mohleen Kang,Mary Evans,Nadine Oosmanally,Melissa Tobin-D'Angelo,Cherie Drenzek,David J. Murphy,Julie Hollberg,James M. Blum,Robert Jansen,David W. Wright,David W. Wright,William Sewell,Jack Owens,Benjamin Lefkove,Frank W. Brown,Deron C. Burton,Timothy M. Uyeki,Stephanie R. Bialek,Brendan R Jackson +33 more
TL;DR: Medical record-abstracted data for hospitalized adult patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 who were admitted during March 2020 revealed an overrepresentation of black patients within this hospitalized cohort, which is important for public health officials to ensure that prevention activities prioritize communities and racial/ethnic groups most affected by CO VID-19.
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Influenza-associated pediatric deaths in the United States, 2004-2012.
TL;DR: Young children have the highest death rates, especially infants aged <6 months, and increasing vaccination among children, pregnant women, and caregivers of infants may reduce influenza-associated pediatric deaths.
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Outbreak of Variant Influenza A(H3N2) Virus in the United States
Michael A. Jhung,Scott Epperson,Matthew Biggerstaff,Donna Allen,Amanda Balish,Nathelia Barnes,Amanda Beaudoin,LaShondra Berman,Sally Bidol,Lenee Blanton,David Blythe,Lynnette Brammer,Tiffany D'Mello,Richard Danila,William G. Davis,Sietske de Fijter,Mary DiOrio,Lizette O. Durand,Shannon L. Emery,Brian Fowler,Rebecca Garten,Yoran Grant,Adena Greenbaum,Larisa V. Gubareva,Fiona Havers,Thomas Haupt,Jennifer House,Sherif Ibrahim,Victoria Jiang,Seema Jain,Daniel B. Jernigan,James J Kazmierczak,Alexander Klimov,Stephen Lindstrom,Allison Longenberger,Paul Lucas,Ruth Lynfield,Meredith McMorrow,Maria Moll,Craig Morin,Stephen M. Ostroff,Shannon L. Page,Sarah Y. Park,Susan Peters,Celia Quinn,Carrie Reed,Shawn Richards,Joni Scheftel,Owen J. Simwale,Bo Shu,Kenneth Soyemi,Jill Stauffer,Craig Steffens,Su Su,Lauren Torso,Timothy M. Uyeki,Sara Vetter,Julie Villanueva,Karen K. Wong,Michael W. Shaw,Joseph S. Bresee,Nancy J. Cox,Lyn Finelli +62 more
TL;DR: During an outbreak of H3N2v variant influenza, it was found that most cases reported agricultural fair attendance and/or contact with swine prior to illness, and there was no evidence of efficient or sustained person-to-person transmission.
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First 12 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States
Stephanie A Kujawski,Karen K. Wong,Jennifer P Collins,Lauren Epstein,Marie E Killerby,Claire M Midgley,Glen R. Abedi,N Seema Ahmed,Olivia Almendares,Francisco N Alvarez,Kayla N. Anderson,Sharon Balter,Vaughn Barry,Karri Bartlett,Karlyn D. Beer,Michael Ben-Aderet,Isaac Benowitz,Holly M. Biggs,Alison M. Binder,Stephanie R. Black,Brandon Bonin,Catherine M. Brown,Hollianne Bruce,Jonathan Bryant-Genevier,Alicia P. Budd,Diane Buell,Rachel Bystritsky,Jordan Cates,E. Matt Charles,Kevin Chatham-Stephens,Nora Chea,Howard Chiou,Demian Christiansen,Victoria T Chu,Sara Cody,Max Cohen,Erin E. Conners,Aaron T. Curns,Vishal Dasari,Patrick Dawson,Traci DeSalvo,George A. Diaz,Matthew Donahue,Suzanne Donovan,Lindsey M. Duca,Keith Erickson,Mathew D. Esona,Suzanne Evans,Jeremy A. Falk,Leora R. Feldstein,Martin Fenstersheib,Marc Fischer,Rebecca Fisher,Chelsea Foo,Marielle J Fricchione,Oren Friedman,Alicia M. Fry,Romeo R. Galang,Melissa M. Garcia,Susa I. Gerber,Graham Gerrard,Isaac Ghinai,Prabhu Gounder,Jonathan Grein,Cheri Grigg,Jeffrey D. Gunzenhauser,Gary I. Gutkin,Meredith Haddix,Aron J. Hall,George S Han,Jennifer L Harcourt,Kathleen Harriman,Thomas Haupt,Amber K. Haynes,Michelle Holshue,Cora Hoover,Jennifer C. Hunter,Max W. Jacobs,Claire Jarashow,Michael A. Jhung,Kiran Joshi,Talar Kamali,Shifaq Kamili,Lindsay Kim,Moon Kim,Jan King,Hannah L Kirking,Amanda Kita-Yarbro,Rachel Klos,Miwako Kobayashi,Anna Kocharian,Kenneth Komatsu,Ram Koppaka,Jennifer E Layden,Yan Li,Scott Lindquist,Stephen Lindstrom,Ruth Link-Gelles,Joana Y Lively,Michelle Livingston,Kelly Lo,Jennifer Lo,Xiaoyan Lu,Brian Lynch,Lawrence C. Madoff,Lakshmi Malapati,Gregory Marks,Mariel Marlow,Glenn E. Mathisen,Nancy McClung,Olivia L McGovern,Tristan D. McPherson,Mitali Mehta,Audrey Meier,Lynn Mello,Sung-Sil Moon,Margie Morgan,Ruth N. Moro,Janna Murray,Rekha Murthy,Shannon A. Novosad,Sara E. Oliver,Jennifer O'Shea,Massimo Pacilli,Clinton R. Paden,Mark A. Pallansch,Manisha Patel,Sajan Patel,Isabel Pedraza,Satish K. Pillai,Talia Pindyck,Ian W. Pray,Krista Queen,Nichole Quick,Heather Reese,Brian Rha,Heather J. Rhodes,Susan Robinson,Philip Robinson,Melissa A Rolfes,Janell Routh,Rachel Rubin,Sarah L. Rudman,Senthilkumar K. Sakthivel,Sarah Scott,Christopher Shepherd,Varun Shetty,Ethan A. Smith,Shanon Smith,Bryan Stierman,William V. Stoecker,Rebecca Sunenshine,Regina Sy-Santos,Azaibi Tamin,Ying Tao,Dawn Terashita,Natalie J. Thornburg,Suxiang Tong,Elizabeth Traub,Ahmet Tural,Anna Uehara,Timothy M. Uyeki,Grace M Vahey,Jennifer R. Verani,Elsa Villarino,Megan J. Wallace,Lijuan Wang,John T. Watson,Matthew Westercamp,Brett Whitaker,Sarah Wilkerson,Rebecca C. Woodruff,Jonathan M. Wortham,Tiffany Wu,Amy Xie,Anna R Yousaf,Matthew Zahn,Jing Zhang +177 more
TL;DR: In 12 patients with mild to moderately severe illness, SARS-CoV-2 RNA and viable virus were detected early, and prolonged RNA detection suggests the window for diagnosis is long.
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Human Infections With Influenza A(H3N2) Variant Virus in the United States, 2011–2012
Scott Epperson,Michael A. Jhung,Shawn Richards,Patricia Quinlisk,Lauren Ball,Maria Moll,Rachelle Boulton,Loretta Haddy,Matthew Biggerstaff,Lynnette Brammer,Susan C. Trock,Erin Burns,Thomas M. Gomez,Karen K. Wong,Jackie Katz,Stephen Lindstrom,Alexander Klimov,Joseph S. Bresee,Daniel B. Jernigan,Nancy J. Cox,Lyn Finelli +20 more
TL;DR: H3N2v virus infections were identified at a high rate from August 2011 to April 2012, and cases without swine exposure were identified in influenza-like illness outbreaks, indicating that limited person-to-person transmission likely occurred.