{"id":5519,"date":"2020-03-30T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T23:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5519"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T00:30:49","slug":"children-are-unlikely-to-have-been-the-primary-source-of-household-sars-cov-2-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/30\/children-are-unlikely-to-have-been-the-primary-source-of-household-sars-cov-2-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"Children are unlikely to have been the primary source of household SARS-CoV-2 infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zhu et al investigated concerns that children could be an important source of SARS-CoV-2 in household transmission clusters. The observational study analyzed literature published on the clinical features of SARS-CoV-2 in children and household transmission clusters of SARS-CoV-2 in China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Iran. Only 9.7% of clusters were identified as having a pediatric index case. They conclude that whilst SARS-CoV-2 can cause mild disease in children, the data to date suggests that children have not played a substantive role in the intra-household transmission of SARS-CoV-2.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Zhu et al. (Mar 30, 2020). Children are unlikely to have been the primary source of household SARS-CoV-2 infections.<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Preprint downloaded Mar 30 from<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.26.20044826\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.26.20044826<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhu et al investigated concerns that children could be an important source of SARS-CoV-2 in household transmission clusters. The observational study analyzed literature published on the clinical features of SARS-CoV-2 in children and household transmission clusters of SARS-CoV-2 in China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Iran. Only 9.7% of clusters were identified as having a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/30\/children-are-unlikely-to-have-been-the-primary-source-of-household-sars-cov-2-infections\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-5519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5520,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5519\/revisions\/5520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5519"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}