{"id":6568,"date":"2021-03-15T13:42:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2021-03-16T13:43:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:43:32","slug":"household-sars-cov-2-transmission-and-children-a-network-prospective-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/15\/household-sars-cov-2-transmission-and-children-a-network-prospective-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Household SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Children: A Network Prospective Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A study of SARS-CoV-2 household transmission in Spain found that while viral transmission was common among household members (62.3%), among the 1,040 children under age 16 included in the study, more than 70% (756) of cases were acquired from an adult, whereas only 7.7% (80) were index cases. Almost half (47.2%) were asymptomatic, 10.8% had comorbidities, 2.6% required hospitalization, and no deaths were reported. The secondary attack rate was significantly lower in households with COVID-19 pediatric index cases during the school period relative to summer (p=0.02), and when compared to households with adult index cases (p=0.006). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[EDITORIAL NOTE: Directionality of transmission was uncertain in 28% of index cases and both household member and child were assigned as index cases.<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, this analysis did not appear to fully incorporate shared exposure to a non-household source of infection.]<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soriano-Arandes et al.\u00a0(Mar 12, 2021). Household SARS-CoV-2 Transmission and Children: A Network Prospective Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab228\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab228<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study of SARS-CoV-2 household transmission in Spain found that while viral transmission was common among household members (62.3%), among the 1,040 children under age 16 included in the study, more than 70% (756) of cases were acquired from an adult, whereas only 7.7% (80) were index cases. Almost half (47.2%) were asymptomatic, 10.8% had&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/15\/household-sars-cov-2-transmission-and-children-a-network-prospective-study\/\">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":[41,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-children","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568","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=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6569,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}