{"id":6570,"date":"2021-03-15T13:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T20:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2021-03-16T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:45:00","slug":"limits-of-lockdown-characterising-essential-contacts-during-strict-physical-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/15\/limits-of-lockdown-characterising-essential-contacts-during-strict-physical-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Limits of Lockdown Characterising Essential Contacts during Strict Physical Distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> During the first lockdown in the UK, essential healthcare workers <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">had 4.5 times as many contacts as non-essential workers (IRR = 4.4), while essential workers in other sectors like teaching and the police force had <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nearly <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">three times as many contacts (IRR = 2.8), according to a study of participants in a longitudinal birth cohort (n = 6,807). The number of individuals in a household increased essential social contacts by 40%. There was an average <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">59% reduction in the daily number of contacts for individuals who reported self-isolating compared to those who did not (from 4.1 to 1.7).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thomas et al.\u00a0(Mar 13, 2021). Limits of Lockdown Characterising Essential Contacts during Strict Physical Distancing. Pre-print downloaded Mar 15 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.12.21253484\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.12.21253484<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] During the first lockdown in the UK, essential healthcare workers had 4.5 times as many contacts as non-essential workers (IRR = 4.4), while essential workers in other sectors like teaching and the police force had nearly three times as many contacts (IRR = 2.8), according to a study of participants in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/15\/limits-of-lockdown-characterising-essential-contacts-during-strict-physical-distancing\/\">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":[38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6570","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\/6570","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=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6571,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions\/6571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}