{"id":5202,"date":"2021-02-26T21:14:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2021-02-26T21:14:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T05:14:26","slug":"risk-factors-associated-with-covid-19-transmission-among-us-air-force-trainees-in-a-congregant-setting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/26\/risk-factors-associated-with-covid-19-transmission-among-us-air-force-trainees-in-a-congregant-setting\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk Factors Associated With COVID-19 Transmission Among US Air Force Trainees in a Congregant Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A higher number of symptoms and higher viral loads were associated with subsequent clusters of SARS-CoV-2 cases among cohorts of US Air Force basic trainees. Among 10,613 US Air Force basic trainees, of whom 3% (403) received a diagnosis of COVID-19 during the study period, higher numbers of symptoms and higher viral loads (lower cycle threshold (Ct) values) were associated with subsequent development of clusters of individuals with COVID-19 infection. The authors suggest that Ct values may be useful in assessing risk of ongoing transmission in specific cohorts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Although individual cases of COVID-19 occurred in almost half of all training cohorts, only 11% of cohorts had an initial individual case that resulted in a cluster of 5 or more cases, a success that the authors attributed to effective non-pharmaceutical interventions among the trainees.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Marcus et al. (Feb 25, 2021). Risk Factors Associated With COVID-19 Transmission Among US Air Force Trainees in a Congregant Setting. JAMA Network Open. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2021.0202\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1001\/jamanetworkopen.2021.0202<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A higher number of symptoms and higher viral loads were associated with subsequent clusters of SARS-CoV-2 cases among cohorts of US Air Force basic trainees. Among 10,613 US Air Force basic trainees, of whom 3% (403) received a diagnosis of COVID-19 during the study period, higher numbers of symptoms and higher viral loads (lower cycle&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/26\/risk-factors-associated-with-covid-19-transmission-among-us-air-force-trainees-in-a-congregant-setting\/\">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":[150,109,38],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-5202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-congregate-settings","tag-military","tag-transmission","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202","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=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}