{"id":3287,"date":"2021-01-19T10:15:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T18:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2021-01-20T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T18:16:34","slug":"reopening-schools-and-the-dynamics-of-sars-cov-2-infections-in-israel-a-nationwide-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/19\/reopening-schools-and-the-dynamics-of-sars-cov-2-infections-in-israel-a-nationwide-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Reopening Schools and the Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Israel: A Nationwide Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide weekly incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Israel gradually increased after school reopening in May 2020, and positivity rates 21-27 days following school reopening increased at least 3-fold among adults \u226520 years, but did not increase for children &lt;20 years old. No increase was observed in COVID-19 associated hospitalizations and deaths following school reopening. However, following the easing of social gathering restrictions from May to June 2020 (which coincided with the end of the academic school year), a significant increase in hospitalizations and mortality was observed. The authors suggest that easing social gathering restrictions, rather than school reopening, was the major contributor to transmission.<\/p>\n<p><i>Somekh et al. (Jan 18, 2021). Reopening Schools and the Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Infections in Israel: A Nationwide Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab035\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab035<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide weekly incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Israel gradually increased after school reopening in May 2020, and positivity rates 21-27 days following school reopening increased at least 3-fold among adults \u226520 years, but did not increase for children &lt;20 years old. No increase was observed in COVID-19 associated hospitalizations and deaths following school reopening. However,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/19\/reopening-schools-and-the-dynamics-of-sars-cov-2-infections-in-israel-a-nationwide-study\/\">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":[22],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-schools","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287","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=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3288,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}