{"id":1725,"date":"2020-10-22T12:59:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2020-10-23T13:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T20:00:05","slug":"covid-19-in-a-correctional-facility-employee-following-multiple-brief-exposures-to-persons-with-covid-19-vermont-july-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/22\/covid-19-in-a-correctional-facility-employee-following-multiple-brief-exposures-to-persons-with-covid-19-vermont-july-august-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 in a Correctional Facility Employee Following Multiple Brief Exposures to Persons with COVID-19 \u2014 Vermont, July\u2013August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A correctional facility officer in Vermont contracted SARS-CoV-2 after multiple brief encounters with 6 SARS-CoV-2 positive incarcerated or detained persons (IDPs) for a cumulative duration of 17 minutes. However, he did not meet the operational definition of a &#8220;close contact&#8221; in contact tracing investigations, which is being within 6 feet of infectious persons for 15 minutes or more. The officer wore a microfiber cloth mask, gown, and eye protection during all interactions with IDPs, while the IDPs only wore PPE during some interactions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pringle et al. (Oct 21, 2020). COVID-19 in a Correctional Facility Employee Following Multiple Brief Exposures to Persons with COVID-19 \u2014 Vermont, July\u2013August 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6943e1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6943e1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A correctional facility officer in Vermont contracted SARS-CoV-2 after multiple brief encounters with 6 SARS-CoV-2 positive incarcerated or detained persons (IDPs) for a cumulative duration of 17 minutes. However, he did not meet the operational definition of a &#8220;close contact&#8221; in contact tracing investigations, which is being within 6 feet of infectious persons for 15&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/22\/covid-19-in-a-correctional-facility-employee-following-multiple-brief-exposures-to-persons-with-covid-19-vermont-july-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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98,26,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-jail","tag-prisons","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","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=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}