{"id":5236,"date":"2021-03-01T01:12:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2021-03-02T01:13:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T09:13:29","slug":"retail-store-customer-flow-and-covid-19-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/01\/retail-store-customer-flow-and-covid-19-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Retail Store Customer Flow and COVID-19 Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A mathematical model analyzing retail customer flow and SARS-CoV-2 transmission found that then restricting customers to one-way movement could reduce transmission rates to less than one-third of the rate with two-way movement, if all customers comply and transmission occurs primarily through close contact. The model was calibrated using published epidemiologic data and predicted that for a medium-sized retail store in an area with relatively high COVID-19 prevalence, the transmission rate (via direct and wake exposure) would be 0.33 infections per day without complete one-way flow compliance.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Shumsky et al. (Mar 16, 2021). Retail Store Customer Flow and COVID-19 Transmission. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2019225118\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2019225118<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mathematical model analyzing retail customer flow and SARS-CoV-2 transmission found that then restricting customers to one-way movement could reduce transmission rates to less than one-third of the rate with two-way movement, if all customers comply and transmission occurs primarily through close contact. The model was calibrated using published epidemiologic data and predicted that for&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/01\/retail-store-customer-flow-and-covid-19-transmission\/\">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":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","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=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5237,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}