{"id":2589,"date":"2020-12-07T12:13:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2589"},"modified":"2020-12-08T12:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T20:14:34","slug":"a-meta-analysis-on-the-role-of-children-in-sars-cov-2-in-household-transmission-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/07\/a-meta-analysis-on-the-role-of-children-in-sars-cov-2-in-household-transmission-clusters\/","title":{"rendered":"A Meta-Analysis on the Role of Children in SARS-CoV-2 in Household Transmission Clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A meta-analysis of the role of children in SARS-CoV-2 household transmission identified 213 transmission clusters from 12 countries, and found that only 8 clusters (3.8%) had a pediatric index case. Asymptomatic index cases were associated with a lower secondary attack rate in contacts than symptomatic index cases (RR 0.17). The secondary attack rate was also lower among pediatric than adult household contacts (RR, 0.62).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Zhu et al. (Dec 6, 2020). A Meta-Analysis on the Role of Children in SARS-CoV-2 in Household Transmission Clusters. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1825\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciaa1825<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meta-analysis of the role of children in SARS-CoV-2 household transmission identified 213 transmission clusters from 12 countries, and found that only 8 clusters (3.8%) had a pediatric index case. Asymptomatic index cases were associated with a lower secondary attack rate in contacts than symptomatic index cases (RR 0.17). The secondary attack rate was also&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/07\/a-meta-analysis-on-the-role-of-children-in-sars-cov-2-in-household-transmission-clusters\/\">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-2589","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\/2589","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=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}