{"id":1214,"date":"2020-09-29T17:36:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T00:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2020-09-29T17:36:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T00:36:30","slug":"multiple-covid-19-clusters-on-a-university-campus-north-carolina-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/29\/multiple-covid-19-clusters-on-a-university-campus-north-carolina-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple COVID-19 Clusters on a University Campus \u2014 North Carolina, August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Within 2 weeks of opening the campus to students (Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 25), a North Carolina university experienced 670 COVID-19 cases. Preliminary investigations suggest student gatherings and congregate living settings, both on and off campus, likely contributed to the rapid spread of COVID-19 on campus. The authors state that measures to reduce transmission on college campuses could include reducing on-campus housing density, ensuring that campus community members adhere to masking and other mitigation strategies, increasing testing, and discouraging student gatherings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wilson et al. (Sept 29, 2020). Multiple COVID-19 Clusters on a University Campus \u2014 North Carolina, August 2020. MMWR. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6939e3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6939e3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within 2 weeks of opening the campus to students (Aug 3 \u2013 Aug 25), a North Carolina university experienced 670 COVID-19 cases. Preliminary investigations suggest student gatherings and congregate living settings, both on and off campus, likely contributed to the rapid spread of COVID-19 on campus. The authors state that measures to reduce transmission on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/09\/29\/multiple-covid-19-clusters-on-a-university-campus-north-carolina-august-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}