{"id":3752,"date":"2021-02-08T20:06:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T04:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3752"},"modified":"2021-02-08T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T04:06:31","slug":"covid-19-transmission-in-educational-institutions-august-to-december-2020-rhineland-palatinate-germany-a-study-of-index-cases-and-close-contact-cohorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/08\/covid-19-transmission-in-educational-institutions-august-to-december-2020-rhineland-palatinate-germany-a-study-of-index-cases-and-close-contact-cohorts\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Transmission in Educational Institutions August to December 2020 Rhineland-Palatinate Germany a Study of Index Cases and Close Contact Cohorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/i> A study of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in schools and daycare centers in Germany from August-December 2020 showed that the risk of infection among contacts of a confirmed COVID-19 case was low but varied depending on type of educational institution and whether the case was a teacher or student\/child. Out of 784 index cases, one of six cases caused a transmission in educational institutions. Risk of transmission was higher among teachers than students\/children (IRR = 3.2), and among index cases in day-care centers than secondary schools (IRR = 3.2). In 748 index cases, teachers caused four times more secondary cases than children (IRR = 4.4), mainly attributed to transmission from teacher index case to teacher contact.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Schoeps et al. (Feb 8, 2021). COVID-19 Transmission in Educational Institutions August to December 2020 Rhineland-Palatinate Germany a Study of Index Cases and Close Contact Cohorts. Pre-print downloaded Feb 8 from <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.04.21250670\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.02.04.21250670<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A study of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in schools and daycare centers in Germany from August-December 2020 showed that the risk of infection among contacts of a confirmed COVID-19 case was low but varied depending on type of educational institution and whether the case was a teacher or student\/child. Out of 784 index cases,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/08\/covid-19-transmission-in-educational-institutions-august-to-december-2020-rhineland-palatinate-germany-a-study-of-index-cases-and-close-contact-cohorts\/\">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":[35,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-3752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-schools","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752","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=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3752\/revisions\/3753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3752"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}