{"id":3431,"date":"2021-01-26T13:33:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T21:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2021-01-27T13:35:25","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T21:35:25","slug":"covid-19-cases-and-transmission-in-17-k-12-schools-wood-county-wisconsin-august-31-november-29-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/26\/covid-19-cases-and-transmission-in-17-k-12-schools-wood-county-wisconsin-august-31-november-29-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Cases and Transmission in 17 K\u201312 Schools \u2014 Wood County, Wisconsin, August 31\u2013November 29, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite widespread community transmission, limited COVID-19 spread was observed from August to November 2020 in 17 rural K-12 schools in Wood County, Wisconsin that reopened with in-person instruction and several infection mitigation measures. Schools implemented physical distancing among students and staff, established groups of 11-20 students, and had a 92% reported mask adherence among students. Among 191 cases identified in 5,530 students and staff, there were 7 student cases and 0 staff cases linked to in-school transmission. The case rate among students and staff was lower than the county case rate (3,453 vs 5,466 per 100,000). An estimated 12% of Wood County\u2019s children were attending school virtually.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Falk et al. (Jan 26, 2021). COVID-19 Cases and Transmission in 17 K\u201312 Schools \u2014 Wood County, Wisconsin, August 31\u2013November 29, 2020. MMWR. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7004e3\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7004e3<\/a><i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite widespread community transmission, limited COVID-19 spread was observed from August to November 2020 in 17 rural K-12 schools in Wood County, Wisconsin that reopened with in-person instruction and several infection mitigation measures. Schools implemented physical distancing among students and staff, established groups of 11-20 students, and had a 92% reported mask adherence among students&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/01\/26\/covid-19-cases-and-transmission-in-17-k-12-schools-wood-county-wisconsin-august-31-november-29-2020\/\">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":[37,35],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-non-pharm-interventions","tag-schools","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","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=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}