{"id":3235,"date":"2021-01-14T11:52:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2021-01-16T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T19:54:09","slug":"what-is-the-evidence-for-transmission-of-covid-19-by-children-in-schools-a-living-systematic-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/14\/what-is-the-evidence-for-transmission-of-covid-19-by-children-in-schools-a-living-systematic-review\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Evidence for Transmission of COVID-19 by Children in Schools? A Living Systematic Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 studies from Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America indicate that the overall SARS-CoV-2 attack rate and positivity rate in school environments are low. Data from 5 cohort studies (n=3,345 contacts and 8 transmissions) found a pooled attack rate of 0.15% for students and 0.7% for staff. Across 6 cross-sectional studies (n=639 positive cases among 6,682 participants tested), the proportion of positivity was 8% among students and 14% among staff. Authors note that overall study quality was judged to be poor and at risk of performance and attrition bias.<\/p>\n<p><i>Xu et al. (Dec 10, 2020). What Is the Evidence for Transmission of COVID-19 by Children in Schools? A Living Systematic Review. Journal of Global Health. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7189\/jogh.10.021104\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7189\/jogh.10.021104<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review and meta-analysis of 11 studies from Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America indicate that the overall SARS-CoV-2 attack rate and positivity rate in school environments are low. Data from 5 cohort studies (n=3,345 contacts and 8 transmissions) found a pooled attack rate of 0.15% for students and 0.7% for staff. Across 6&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/14\/what-is-the-evidence-for-transmission-of-covid-19-by-children-in-schools-a-living-systematic-review\/\">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":[35],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-schools","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}