{"id":7159,"date":"2021-03-19T17:42:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7159"},"modified":"2021-03-23T17:43:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T00:43:19","slug":"low-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-elementary-schools-salt-lake-county-utah-december-3-2020-january-31-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/19\/low-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-elementary-schools-salt-lake-county-utah-december-3-2020-january-31-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Low SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Elementary Schools \u2014 Salt Lake County, Utah, December 3, 2020\u2013January 31, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite high community incidence and an inability to space classroom seats at least 6 feet apart, there was low SARS-CoV-2 transmission and no school-related outbreaks in 20 Salt Lake County elementary schools. Schools documented high mask adherence among students and also implemented multiple strategies to limit transmission. The authors suggest that these findings add to evidence that in-person elementary schools can be opened safely with minimal in-school transmission when critical prevention strategies are implemented, including mask use, even though maintaining at least 6 feet between students\u2019 seats is not possible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hershow, R et al. Low SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Elementary Schools \u2014 Salt Lake County, Utah, December 3, 2020\u2013January 31, 2021. MMWR. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7012e3\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7012e3<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite high community incidence and an inability to space classroom seats at least 6 feet apart, there was low SARS-CoV-2 transmission and no school-related outbreaks in 20 Salt Lake County elementary schools. Schools documented high mask adherence among students and also implemented multiple strategies to limit transmission. The authors suggest that these findings add to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/19\/low-sars-cov-2-transmission-in-elementary-schools-salt-lake-county-utah-december-3-2020-january-31-2021\/\">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":[35,38],"topic":[21],"class_list":["post-7159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-schools","tag-transmission","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159","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=7159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7160,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7159\/revisions\/7160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7159"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}