{"id":2425,"date":"2020-11-30T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2020-12-01T12:41:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T20:41:46","slug":"sars-cov-2-transmission-in-an-urban-community-the-role-of-children-and-household-contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/30\/sars-cov-2-transmission-in-an-urban-community-the-role-of-children-and-household-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in an Urban Community: The Role of Children and Household Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective study of infection patterns among contacts of 71 children with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in an urban setting found that fewer than half of children who tested positive had a household sick contact (HHSC). HHSCs were defined as someone who either tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 or who had symptoms consistent with COVID-19. In all cases where a HHSC was identified, there was no evidence of child-to-adult transmission, and only one case of child-to-child transmission among siblings.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Pitman-Hunt et al. (Nov 27, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in an Urban Community: The Role of Children and Household Contacts. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jpids\/piaa158\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jpids\/piaa158<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective study of infection patterns among contacts of 71 children with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in an urban setting found that fewer than half of children who tested positive had a household sick contact (HHSC). HHSCs were defined as someone who either tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 or who had symptoms consistent with COVID-19. In all&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/30\/sars-cov-2-transmission-in-an-urban-community-the-role-of-children-and-household-contacts\/\">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-2425","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\/2425","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=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/2426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}