{"id":2230,"date":"2020-11-18T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2020-11-19T12:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T20:09:49","slug":"secondary-attack-rate-and-family-clustering-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-children-of-healthcare-workers-with-confirmed-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/18\/secondary-attack-rate-and-family-clustering-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-children-of-healthcare-workers-with-confirmed-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Secondary Attack Rate and Family Clustering of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children of Healthcare Workers with Confirmed COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seropositivity against SARS-CoV-2 was found in 45% of children in households with a parent who is a healthcare worker and who had confirmed COVID-19. Secondary cases appeared to cluster in certain households, with 95% seropositivity among children in households with at least one secondary transmission. In a cohort study of 44 children from 21 households with a parent who is a healthcare worker with COVID-19 from five cities in in the UK, 45% (20 of 44) of children were seropositive for SARS-CoV-2 IgG. There was evidence of clustering of the secondary transmissions in certain households, with a 95% secondary attack proportion (20 of 21) among the children in the 9 households with at least 1 secondary case compare to no evidence of transmission among the 23 children in the 12 households without a secondary case.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Ladhani et al. (Nov 17, 2020). Secondary Attack Rate and Family Clustering of SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children of Healthcare Workers with Confirmed COVID-19. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1737\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1737<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seropositivity against SARS-CoV-2 was found in 45% of children in households with a parent who is a healthcare worker and who had confirmed COVID-19. Secondary cases appeared to cluster in certain households, with 95% seropositivity among children in households with at least one secondary transmission. In a cohort study of 44 children from 21 households&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/18\/secondary-attack-rate-and-family-clustering-of-sars-cov-2-infection-in-children-of-healthcare-workers-with-confirmed-covid-19\/\">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":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-2230","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\/2230","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=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}