{"id":6970,"date":"2021-03-18T15:25:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T22:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2021-03-19T15:26:56","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T22:26:56","slug":"notes-from-the-field-sars-cov-2-transmission-associated-with-high-school-football-team-members-florida-september-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/18\/notes-from-the-field-sars-cov-2-transmission-associated-with-high-school-football-team-members-florida-september-october-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Field: SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Associated with High School Football Team Members \u2014 Florida, September\u2013October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an outbreak investigation by the Florida Department of Health, an index case of COVID-19 in a high school football player was linked to an additional 18 confirmed cases (12 players, 2 coaches, and 2 non-player classroom contacts). Because of potential close contact between infected team members and classmates, 267 students at the football team\u2019s school were quarantined, resulting in approximately 2,243 person-days of lost in-person learning. Factors that likely led to transmission included infrequent mask use in the weight room or during practice, inadequate physical distancing and ventilation on buses transporting players, infrequent disinfection of communal areas, and insufficient sanitization of shared hydration systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Siegel et al.\u00a0(Mar 19, 2021). Notes from the Field: SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Associated with High School Football Team Members \u2014 Florida, September\u2013October 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7011a3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7011a3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an outbreak investigation by the Florida Department of Health, an index case of COVID-19 in a high school football player was linked to an additional 18 confirmed cases (12 players, 2 coaches, and 2 non-player classroom contacts). Because of potential close contact between infected team members and classmates, 267 students at the football team\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/18\/notes-from-the-field-sars-cov-2-transmission-associated-with-high-school-football-team-members-florida-september-october-2020\/\">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":[35,66,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-6970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-schools","tag-sports","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970","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=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6971,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions\/6971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}