{"id":1902,"date":"2020-10-30T11:10:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2020-11-02T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T19:14:23","slug":"estimated-association-of-construction-work-with-risks-of-covid-19-infection-and-hospitalization-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/30\/estimated-association-of-construction-work-with-risks-of-covid-19-infection-and-hospitalization-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimated Association of Construction Work With Risks of COVID-19 Infection and Hospitalization in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A decision analytical model for COVID-19 found that resuming unrestricted construction work during shelter-in-place orders in Texas was associated with a higher risk of community hospitalizations due to SARS-CoV-2 (0.38 to 1.5 per 1000 residents) and increased risk of hospitalization of workers (0.22 to 9.3 per 1000 construction workers). Construction workers in central Texas had a nearly 5-fold higher risk of hospitalization compared with other occupational categories among adults aged 18 to 64 years (RR=4.9). Safety measures such as thorough cleaning of equipment, use of PPE, and limiting numbers of works at a given site were associated with a 50% decrease in transmission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pasco et al. (Oct 29, 2020). Estimated Association of Construction Work With Risks of COVID-19 Infection and Hospitalization in Texas. JAMA Network Open. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.26373\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2020.26373<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decision analytical model for COVID-19 found that resuming unrestricted construction work during shelter-in-place orders in Texas was associated with a higher risk of community hospitalizations due to SARS-CoV-2 (0.38 to 1.5 per 1000 residents) and increased risk of hospitalization of workers (0.22 to 9.3 per 1000 construction workers). Construction workers in central Texas had&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/30\/estimated-association-of-construction-work-with-risks-of-covid-19-infection-and-hospitalization-in-texas\/\">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":[46],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-risk-factors","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","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=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}