{"id":1600,"date":"2020-10-16T15:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T22:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2020-10-19T15:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:21:49","slug":"sars-cov-2-infections-in-italian-schools-preliminary-findings-after-one-month-of-school-opening-during-the-second-wave-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/16\/sars-cov-2-infections-in-italian-schools-preliminary-findings-after-one-month-of-school-opening-during-the-second-wave-of-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Italian Schools Preliminary Findings after One Month of School Opening during the Second Wave of the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/i> Preliminary data from a study of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Italian schools showed that transmission appears to be low among younger students. As of October 5, a total of 1,350 SARS-CoV-2 infections had been registered in Italian territory schools in an online database of media news about infections in schools. Schools reported a single infection in 93% of reports, with only one high school reporting an outbreak of more than 10 cases. The largest percentage of cases (34%) were from high schools, with lower percentages for younger grades. The authors suggest that monitoring school settings is key to providing guidelines that consider different risks within different age groups.<\/p>\n<p><i>Buonsenso et al. (Oct 11, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Italian Schools Preliminary Findings after One Month of School Opening during the Second Wave of the Pandemic. Pre-print downloaded Oct 16<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.10.20210328\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.10.20210328<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] Preliminary data from a study of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Italian schools showed that transmission appears to be low among younger students. As of October 5, a total of 1,350 SARS-CoV-2 infections had been registered in Italian territory schools in an online database of media news about infections in schools. Schools reported&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/16\/sars-cov-2-infections-in-italian-schools-preliminary-findings-after-one-month-of-school-opening-during-the-second-wave-of-the-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[91,35,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-1600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-italy","tag-schools","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}