{"id":2098,"date":"2020-11-10T13:26:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T21:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2020-11-12T13:27:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T21:27:21","slug":"the-role-of-children-in-the-transmission-chain-of-sars-cov-2-a-systematic-review-and-update-of-current-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/10\/the-role-of-children-in-the-transmission-chain-of-sars-cov-2-a-systematic-review-and-update-of-current-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Children in the Transmission Chain of SARS-CoV-2 a Systematic Review and Update of Current Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]<\/i> A systematic review and meta-analysis of 22 studies on the role of children in the SARS-CoV-2 transmission chain confirms that children are able to be infected and transmit SARS-CoV-2 in a variety of settings, with potentially different dynamics depending upon age. Transmission chains in which the index case was a child were more frequently seen in household settings than school settings, although the authors recognize the limited number of studies within their review.<\/p>\n<p><i>Suk et al. (Nov 9, 2020). The Role of Children in the Transmission Chain of SARS-CoV-2 a Systematic Review and Update of Current Evidence. Pre-print downloaded Nov 11 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.06.20227264\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.11.06.20227264<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed] A systematic review and meta-analysis of 22 studies on the role of children in the SARS-CoV-2 transmission chain confirms that children are able to be infected and transmit SARS-CoV-2 in a variety of settings, with potentially different dynamics depending upon age. Transmission chains in which the index case was a child&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/10\/the-role-of-children-in-the-transmission-chain-of-sars-cov-2-a-systematic-review-and-update-of-current-evidence\/\">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":[41,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","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=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2099,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}