{"id":6884,"date":"2021-03-17T12:14:42","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T19:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2021-03-18T12:15:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T19:15:52","slug":"sars-cov-2-epidemiology-on-a-public-university-campus-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/17\/sars-cov-2-epidemiology-on-a-public-university-campus-in-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 Epidemiology on a Public University Campus in Washington State"},"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[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]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\"> A SARS-CoV-2 testing program at the University of Washington found that SARS-CoV-2 spread through school-based outbreaks without evidence of spread to the surrounding community. The testing program, which prioritized individuals with symptoms and high-risk exposure, identified 236 cases out of 16,476 tests conducted in the fall of 2020. Affiliation with a university fraternity or sorority was the strongest risk factor associated with testing positive. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">52 out of 59 viral genomes sequenced from students affiliated with the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fraternity\/sorority <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">community were genetically identical to at least one other genome detected, compared to 11 out of 29 genomes from non-<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fraternity\/sorority <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-affiliated students and employees.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Most (75%) cases reported at least one of the following: experiencing SARS-CoV-2 symptoms (61%), exposure to a case (35%), or engaging in high-risk behaviors (22%).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weil et al.\u00a0(Mar 17, 2021). SARS-CoV-2 Epidemiology on a Public University Campus in Washington State. Pre-print downloaded Mar 17 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.15.21253227\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.03.15.21253227<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A SARS-CoV-2 testing program at the University of Washington found that SARS-CoV-2 spread through school-based outbreaks without evidence of spread to the surrounding community. The testing program, which prioritized individuals with symptoms and high-risk exposure, identified 236 cases out of 16,476 tests conducted in the fall of 2020. Affiliation with a university&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/17\/sars-cov-2-epidemiology-on-a-public-university-campus-in-washington-state\/\">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":[203,38,202],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-college","tag-transmission","tag-uw","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","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=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6885,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions\/6885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}